**4. Profitability of off-season tomato cultivation**

It is conspicuous from **Figure 2** that the average yield of summer tomato was 32.45 t/ha which was significantly higher than that of the winter tomato growers. In the winter season, farmers usually received Tk 10 as selling price of per kg tomato, while in the case of summer tomato farmers they received Tk. 38 per kg, which is substantially high. Due to higher productivity and price, the gross return for off-season tomato growers was also significantly higher. Higher gross return implies higher profit. Thus, off-season tomato cultivation may reduce poverty to some extent. **Figure 3** indicates that off-season tomato cultivation does not have any cost advantage. **Figure 4** indicates that tunnel preparation cost, human labor cost, and growth regulators were the major cost items for off-season tomato cultivation [6, 7]. It implies that off-season tomato cultivation is cost incentive and requires higher initial investment which confirms the findings of other studies [20, 21].

**Figure 2.** *Comparative yield of tomato.*

**Figure 3.** *Comparative cost of production.*
