City tree fair ends with sale of Tk 20m saplings
Thursday, 1 July 2010
The month-long tree fair ended Wednesday in city's Agargoan area with sale of 0.6 million saplings for Tk 20 million.
With 100 per cent success achieved in Palm tree cultivation in all areas of the country - both plain and high lands, massive palm oil plantation can meet the edible oil demand here, experts said.
On the concluding day of the tree fair, the city dwellers were found busy collecting their preferred saplings, mostly of flowers and fruits that can grow in earthen tub on rooftops or in corridors of the houses in urban areas.
As a part of the ongoing tree planting campaign, some government organisations like Department of Forests, Bangladesh Forest Research Institute and Department of Agriculture Extension set up their stalls in the fair and encouraged people to plant trees to protect the environment.
There were 150 stalls at the tree fair, which began on May 30 in the premises of the International Trade Fair.
There were eight nurseries of government organisations and some 88 nurseries of non-government organisations in the tree fair with wide variety of saplings. Some 21 private nurseries also took part in the fair.
Talking to UNB, agriculturist MA Samad said Bangladesh is a land where palm tree can be easily grown all over the country. Presently, palm trees are grown particularly in the Sylhet region, but it can be grown in massive scale on both plain and high lands.
Samad, also owner of Krishibid MA Samad Nursery situated at Krishibid Institution premises at Khamar Bari in the city, said that a palm tree starts giving seeds after five years.
He demonstrated some palm seeds, saplings and ripe palm fruits grown in Bangladesh.
With 100 per cent success achieved in Palm tree cultivation in all areas of the country - both plain and high lands, massive palm oil plantation can meet the edible oil demand here, experts said.
On the concluding day of the tree fair, the city dwellers were found busy collecting their preferred saplings, mostly of flowers and fruits that can grow in earthen tub on rooftops or in corridors of the houses in urban areas.
As a part of the ongoing tree planting campaign, some government organisations like Department of Forests, Bangladesh Forest Research Institute and Department of Agriculture Extension set up their stalls in the fair and encouraged people to plant trees to protect the environment.
There were 150 stalls at the tree fair, which began on May 30 in the premises of the International Trade Fair.
There were eight nurseries of government organisations and some 88 nurseries of non-government organisations in the tree fair with wide variety of saplings. Some 21 private nurseries also took part in the fair.
Talking to UNB, agriculturist MA Samad said Bangladesh is a land where palm tree can be easily grown all over the country. Presently, palm trees are grown particularly in the Sylhet region, but it can be grown in massive scale on both plain and high lands.
Samad, also owner of Krishibid MA Samad Nursery situated at Krishibid Institution premises at Khamar Bari in the city, said that a palm tree starts giving seeds after five years.
He demonstrated some palm seeds, saplings and ripe palm fruits grown in Bangladesh.