Flower business blooming in Gopalganj
Sunday, 13 March 2011
Our Correspondent
GOPALGANJ, Mar 12: Flower business is fast gaining popularity in Gopalganj district and the business is going on in full swing here. According to sources over one thousand people of the district earn their livelihood from flower business by producing and selling them. About Tk 5 million is earned every year from this business and encouraged by the turnover other farmers also have started flower cultivation on commercial basis. More than twenty flowers farms have been set up in the district and flowers produced in those gardens is better than that of other parts of the country, sources said. There are various kinds of flowers produced in the flower gardens, such as rose, tuberose, marigold, gladila, lotus, jasmine etc. The local growers said proper training and financial and technical assistance can pave the way for large scale commercial production of flowers across the southern region. They claimed they have to face harassment and sometimes have to offer bribe to the officials for taking loans from banks. A local flower businessman Tuku Mollah (67) of village Goradair under Gopalganj Sadar Upazila told this Correspondent 'I have been involved in this flower business for the last 38 years and I am selling flowers worth about Tk 500 to Tk 1000 everydsay.
GOPALGANJ, Mar 12: Flower business is fast gaining popularity in Gopalganj district and the business is going on in full swing here. According to sources over one thousand people of the district earn their livelihood from flower business by producing and selling them. About Tk 5 million is earned every year from this business and encouraged by the turnover other farmers also have started flower cultivation on commercial basis. More than twenty flowers farms have been set up in the district and flowers produced in those gardens is better than that of other parts of the country, sources said. There are various kinds of flowers produced in the flower gardens, such as rose, tuberose, marigold, gladila, lotus, jasmine etc. The local growers said proper training and financial and technical assistance can pave the way for large scale commercial production of flowers across the southern region. They claimed they have to face harassment and sometimes have to offer bribe to the officials for taking loans from banks. A local flower businessman Tuku Mollah (67) of village Goradair under Gopalganj Sadar Upazila told this Correspondent 'I have been involved in this flower business for the last 38 years and I am selling flowers worth about Tk 500 to Tk 1000 everydsay.