Bamboo-made handicraft becoming popular

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BSS, Narsingdi :
The bamboo made handicrafts have become popular again among the common people and bring fortune for hundreds of the unemployed rural people of the district.
The people are now showing more interest in using bamboo made handicrafts instead of harmful synthetic goods.
A good number of skill craftsman inherited from their forefathers have given a special dimension to their products in the district. But due to available of the attractive design plastic products in the markets the demand of the bamboo made handicrafts had decreased.
At present it has reviving its popularity among the common people.
Understanding harmful impacts of using synthetic goods, common people are now showing more interest in using bamboo made handicrafts and the private sectors entrepreneurs have been producing the demandable items.
Craftsman mainly living in the villages producing various handicrafts by using bamboo and they are becoming self reliance by adopting the profession. A number of unemployed young girls, distressed women have also engaged them with the profession and proved that it is a very effective profession in combating poverty and achieving economic well being in the rural areas.
Entrepreneurs Safaly Begum, 40, and her 18 years old daughter Parul Begum of Patoli union in Belabo upazila has set an example in reviving the lost aristocracy of producing various bamboo made charming handicrafts including beds, fruits trays, baskets flower vase, mora , ashtray and flute.
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