Farmgate is an area in

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, the capital of

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. It is one of the busiest and most crowded areas of Dhaka city. From the early 1990s, the area has seen a massive construction boom. Consequently, the area has gained commercial importance and become one of the major transportation hubs of Dhaka from where anyone can travel to all other parts of the city and throughout the country. Line 6 of the

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has a station there. Today Farmgate has become more of a commercial area than a residential area. Neighboring places of Farmgate are

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Kawran Bazar Kawran Bazar (), misspelled as Karwan Bazar, is a central business district and is one of the biggest commodity marketplaces in Dhaka city, the capital of Bangladesh. Located in Tejgaon Thana, it is a designated commercial area of the Dhaka North C ...

, Panthapath,

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, Rajabazar and Bijoy Soroni. The name came to be because of a

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that used to exist in the area.

Feature

Farmgate is the nerve center of Dhaka city. As a major commercial area of

, Farmgate serves as one of the significant business hubs of the city. Many Governmental offices, NGOs (Non-Government Organisations), educational institutions and commercial and financial institutions are located at Farmgate. Furthermore, Ananda Cinema Hall, one of the city's popular and traditionally renowned movie theaters, is located here. Green Road is the main street of this area, extending from the Farmgate

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to Pantapath. Department of Agricultural Extension, commonly known as Khamarbari, is situated in Farmgate. Traffic congestion is a common scene of Farmgate. As a transportation hub of Dhaka, the area most often remains crowded and thousands of cars,

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, minibusses, buses, trucks remain stranded for even hours in the roads and streets of Farmgate. The majority of the inhabitants of Farmgate work in service industries or businesses. Dhaka's largest sanitary market and Green Supermarket are here. Another highly crowded market, known as Sezan Market is located right beside the Farmgate footbridge. With numerous markets, offices, and immense traffic jams, one can take a glimpse and find the ambiance of Dhaka by going to Farmgate.

Education

There are several educational institutions located at Farmgate. The most renowned include: Schools * Government Science High School * Tejgaon Government High School * Tejgaon Government Girls High School * Holy Cross Girls' High School *Nazneen School * Ideal International School and College Colleges * Holy Cross College * Government Science College *

Tejgaon College Tejgaon College () is a college in Dhaka city, Bangladesh which was founded in 1961. It has 30,000 students. Tejgaon College is located at Farmgate, at the Dhaka city centre. It had started off as a night college in a school campus at Sadarghat ...

*Ideal Commerce College *Nazneen College

References

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Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC)

Cotton Development Board
Neighbourhoods in Dhaka History of agriculture in Bangladesh