BSS, Rangpur :
The private sector nursery business has become a profitable venture changing fortune of many rural families and turning the tree plantation campaign into an effective social movement in Rangpur region.
The business has been expanding fast with assistance of different government departments and NGOs in recent years to help rural people in cutting poverty, achieving self-reliance and improving environment and ecology.
According to sources with the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) and Department of Forests (DoF), one lakh people are involved directly or indirectly with 28 government and 1,239 private sector nurseries of different sizes in the region.
The DoF, DAE, Local Government and Engineering Department, Water Development Board, Barind Multipurpose Development Authority, NGOs and voluntary organisations have been producing, distributing and planting thousands of saplings every year.
In addition, different government departments have been producing, selling and planting huge saplings of different kinds, including wood, fruit and medicinal trees every year.
Talking to BSS, Horticulture Specialist of the DAE Khondker Md Mesbahul Islam said demand of saplings is increasing every year encouraging more people in setting up of newer nurseries.
He said, “Nursery business has become a popular venture as the tree plantation drive has turned into one of the most successful social movements following implementation of various pragmatic programmes by the present government.”
Saplings of mango, jackfruit, orange, ‘segun’, ‘baukul’, ‘apple kul’, mahogany, ‘babla’, cinnamon, cardamom, guava, ‘amloki’, strawberry, grapes, litchi, black berry, ‘jamrul’, wood apple, pomegranate, ‘shilkorai’, ‘shishu’, ‘neem’, ‘sajina’, coconut and cane ‘golap jam’ are on the best sales.
Youth Abdul Wahab of village Jharbishla under Pirganj upazila in Rangpur narrated his success story of changing fortune through nursery business he began a few years back.
“I was the youngest among five sons and three daughters of my late father. I had no inherited land. I took lease of a little piece of land and set up nursery 10 years back when I was living amid abject poverty with my wife, a son and two daughters,” he said.
The private sector nursery business has become a profitable venture changing fortune of many rural families and turning the tree plantation campaign into an effective social movement in Rangpur region.
The business has been expanding fast with assistance of different government departments and NGOs in recent years to help rural people in cutting poverty, achieving self-reliance and improving environment and ecology.
According to sources with the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) and Department of Forests (DoF), one lakh people are involved directly or indirectly with 28 government and 1,239 private sector nurseries of different sizes in the region.
The DoF, DAE, Local Government and Engineering Department, Water Development Board, Barind Multipurpose Development Authority, NGOs and voluntary organisations have been producing, distributing and planting thousands of saplings every year.
In addition, different government departments have been producing, selling and planting huge saplings of different kinds, including wood, fruit and medicinal trees every year.
Talking to BSS, Horticulture Specialist of the DAE Khondker Md Mesbahul Islam said demand of saplings is increasing every year encouraging more people in setting up of newer nurseries.
He said, “Nursery business has become a popular venture as the tree plantation drive has turned into one of the most successful social movements following implementation of various pragmatic programmes by the present government.”
Saplings of mango, jackfruit, orange, ‘segun’, ‘baukul’, ‘apple kul’, mahogany, ‘babla’, cinnamon, cardamom, guava, ‘amloki’, strawberry, grapes, litchi, black berry, ‘jamrul’, wood apple, pomegranate, ‘shilkorai’, ‘shishu’, ‘neem’, ‘sajina’, coconut and cane ‘golap jam’ are on the best sales.
Youth Abdul Wahab of village Jharbishla under Pirganj upazila in Rangpur narrated his success story of changing fortune through nursery business he began a few years back.
“I was the youngest among five sons and three daughters of my late father. I had no inherited land. I took lease of a little piece of land and set up nursery 10 years back when I was living amid abject poverty with my wife, a son and two daughters,” he said.
