Our Correspondent :
No nursery was found in Bhola district even 5-6 years ago. The forest department or the agriculture department used to produce some saplings for short range exhibitions. The locals depended on the saplings from Swarupkathi during the planting season. But in the last 4-5 years, nurseries have been established in many places of the district. It was started by a sharecropper named Habib in Borhanuddin upazila. Md. Habib, the first commercial nursery artisan in Borhanuddin.
Study means complete literacy. At one time there was a sharecropper in Chagla village of Kutuba union of the upazila. Habib Over time, he has built a huge nursery on about four and a quarter acres of land. Success has caught him from the beginning. The income from the nursery has brought financial prosperity to his family. On the other hand, he has proved that it is possible to meet the demand of the area with the saplings produced in the nursery if there is effort, concentration and hard work without bringing saplings or cuttings from other districts. Inspired by Habib, local youths are leaning towards nursery.
Borhanuddin is 4-5 km away from Upazila Sadar. Miyabari-Gholpar-Dalalbazar road. Goat Hasnainiya Dakhil Madrasa on one side of the road. Goat Government Primary School on the other hand. Row upon row of fruit tree saplings, cuttings and seasonal vegetable saplings on the west side of the road. Various varieties of graftings include Baromasi mango, mango, grapefruit, amalki, guava, lemon and many other fruits. To the locals it is well known as Habib’s Nursery.
His nursery is rich in more than two hundred species of fruit trees. The number of tree species in his nursery is increasing day by day. There is no stopping the collection of different varieties. As soon as he hears the news of a new species or tree, he jumps towards it. He also produces and sells about twenty-five species of vegetable seedlings per season. Habib said in the nursery, tree saplings used to come from Swarupkathi by water in the whole Bhola district including Borhanuddin. Still comes. In 2002, a question arose in my mind as to why we would not be here if saplings were produced in Sarupkathi. Then I go to Swarupkathi. I would stay at the hotel at night, and go to their nursery during the day.
I used to watch carefully how they do cocoon graftings, branch pens, grafting. I learned the job slowly. Then I bought some trees from Swarupkathi and came back to Borhanuddin. I had no land. I started penning eight percent acres of land. Only one-fourth of the pen was then. The rest did not. Let’s go to Swarupkathi again. Correct the mistakes. They have no advice. No more problems.
Then I went to Bogra, Jessore, Rajshahi and many other parts of the country to learn to pens.
