RANGPUR, Feb 03 (BSS): The flourishing private sector nursery business is changing fortune of many rural families to improve rural economy in recent years in Rangpur agriculture region.
Officials said the nursery business has become a very profitable venture helping the rural people to cut poverty and achieve self-reliance side by side with improving environment, ecology and bio-diversity.
"Some 0.12-million people are involved directly or indirectly in nursery business at 38 government and 1,186 private sector nurseries in all five districts of the region," said Horticulture Specialist of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Khondker Md Mesbahul Islam.
The number of produced saplings of wood, fruit and medicinal trees is increasing every year with increasing number of nurseries both in the private and government sectors.
"More than 4,000 rural people are working in nurseries as the business in growing with increasing demand of saplings encouraging more people in setting up of new nurseries," Islam added.
The produced saplings of mango, jackfruit, orange, 'segun', 'baukul', 'apple kul', mahogany, 'babla', flowers, cinnamon, cardamom, guava, 'amloki', strawberry, grapes, litchi, black berry, 'jamrul', wood apple, pomegranate, 'shilkorai', 'shishu', 'neem', 'sajina', coconut and cane 'golap jam' are on the best sales.
Deputy Director of the DAE at its regional office Md Moniruzzaman said tree plantation campaign has become a successful social movement giving a further boost to nursery business.
