BSS, Rajshahi :
Many youths have made fortunes through commercial flower farming as it becomes a blessing for them in the region, including its vast barind tract.
The enthusiastic youths have found the path of becoming successful entrepreneurs through flower farming with their investments.
Hassan Al Sadi has established a commercial garden on around eight bigha of lands in Polashbari area under Paba Upazila with diversified flower plants attracting many flower-loving people to visit every day.
There are tulip, celosia, servida, pitulia, gladiolus, pongee, verbena, gejenia, china gada, drip chandra mallika, clox and cosmos flower in his ‘dreamers garden’ creating an eye-catching look at present.
Hassan Sadi, a resident of Chapainawabganj, got inspiration after seeing a tulip garden at Shripur in Gazipur district and established his ‘dreamers garden’ in 2020. He also used the open spaces of the mango orchard for flower production by inter-cropping.
Talking to BSS, he said there is an enormous prospect of promoting flower farming in mango orchards as intercropping in the region because huge lands remain fallow more than six to eight months every year.
Zafar Iqbal, 48, a resident of Proshadpara village of the same upazila, has set a bright example in flower farming in the region.
