City Desk :
Speakers at a function stressed the need for planting of saplings of fruit bearing trees to increase food production to cope with the present adverse impact of novel coronavirus pandemic alongside maintaining ecological balance.
Tree plantation would play a significant role in reducing poverty, they told at a tree plantation programme held recently in Harian area under Paba Upazila in Rajshahi district.
Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) hosted the programme to mark the Mujib Barsha, birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, through maintaining social distancing and following the government’s health related guidelines amid the Covid-19 outbreak. BMDA Executive Director Shayam Kishore Roy addressed the meeting as chief guest while Superintending Engineers Abdur Rashid, Shamsul Huda and Nazirul Islam spoke as special guests with Executive Engineer Shariful Haque in the chair.
On the occasion, around 100 saplings of various species of mango trees like langra, Gopal Bhog, Khirsapat and Fazly were transplanted on one-kilometer road from Harian Bypass to Sugar Mill Farm.
Shyam Kishore Roy said BMDA has, so far, transplanted around 2.60 crore saplings of both fruit and forest trees and herbal plants in the barind area in order to maintain environmental and ecological balance and save the region from the wrath of any future natural catastrophe.
Main thrusts of the tree plantation program were to increase forest resources, enhance awareness of farmers about plantation, improve organic matters, status of soil and create employment opportunities.
Explaining various beneficial aspects of trees and homestead gardening in human life, he urged all to plant at least three tree saplings on their homesteads to help maintain environmental and ecological balance.
Speakers at a function stressed the need for planting of saplings of fruit bearing trees to increase food production to cope with the present adverse impact of novel coronavirus pandemic alongside maintaining ecological balance.
Tree plantation would play a significant role in reducing poverty, they told at a tree plantation programme held recently in Harian area under Paba Upazila in Rajshahi district.
Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) hosted the programme to mark the Mujib Barsha, birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, through maintaining social distancing and following the government’s health related guidelines amid the Covid-19 outbreak. BMDA Executive Director Shayam Kishore Roy addressed the meeting as chief guest while Superintending Engineers Abdur Rashid, Shamsul Huda and Nazirul Islam spoke as special guests with Executive Engineer Shariful Haque in the chair.
On the occasion, around 100 saplings of various species of mango trees like langra, Gopal Bhog, Khirsapat and Fazly were transplanted on one-kilometer road from Harian Bypass to Sugar Mill Farm.
Shyam Kishore Roy said BMDA has, so far, transplanted around 2.60 crore saplings of both fruit and forest trees and herbal plants in the barind area in order to maintain environmental and ecological balance and save the region from the wrath of any future natural catastrophe.
Main thrusts of the tree plantation program were to increase forest resources, enhance awareness of farmers about plantation, improve organic matters, status of soil and create employment opportunities.
Explaining various beneficial aspects of trees and homestead gardening in human life, he urged all to plant at least three tree saplings on their homesteads to help maintain environmental and ecological balance.
