A three-day flower festival will begin on the Bangla Academy premises in the city tomorrow.
Innovation and Incubation Center for Enterprises (IICE) is organizing the ‘Bangladesh Flower Fest-2017’ with the cooperation of USAID, Bangladesh Flower Society (BFS), Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Bangladesh Photographic Society (BPS) and Deshifool.com .
A total of 14 pavilions and 33 stalls will be installed in the fair for displaying flowers of different varieties, IICE Executive Director Riazuddin Mosharraf said at a press conference at Jatiya Press Club (JPC) on Tuesday.
BFS President Abdur Rahim, Professor of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Dr AFM Jamal Uddin, BPS President Ashfaq Ahmed, flower entrepreneurs Asma Khatun, Hafiza Khatun Happy and Tanzila Begum were present at the press conference, among others. Mosharraf said they are organizing the flower fair for the second time. Flower cultivators, businessmen, and persons and institutions related to this sector will participate in the festival, he added.
The IICE chief informed that more than one thousand flower species will be on the display in the fair.
Besides, there will be fashion shows, cultural programmes, workshops, flower landscaping, painting competition for children, a prize giving ceremony and a closing ceremony in the fair, he added.
Quoting BFS statistics, Mosharraf said flowers are being cultivated on 12,000 acres of land in 24 districts of the country.
About 2 million people are directly or indirectly involved with cultivating flowers or flower business across the country, he said.
The festival will remain open for all from 10 am to 8 pm till April 1.
