Fruits farming can bring economic well-being for rural people: Experts
Tuesday, 3 July 2007
RANGPUR, July 2 (BSS): Agro-experts here in a farmers' gathering organised on the occasion of `Fruit Plant Sapling Plantation Fortnight-2007' said the rural people could achieve economic well-being through increased production of fruits in their homesteads.
Chaired by Chief Scientific Officer of Burirhat Agriculture Research Centre (BARC) Dr M Hafiz Ullah, the function organised by BARC on its premises yesterday was attended by UNO of Gangachara upazila Mukesh Chandra Biswas as the chief guest.
Gangachara Upazila Agriculture Officer MA Wazed and Senior Scientific Officer of BARC Dr Abu Alam Mandal were present as the special guests in the farmers' gathering that was attended by 200 farmers of the area.
The agro-experts in their speeches said about 10 per cent of the total earnings from agro-production is now being contributed by fruits farming throughout the country and the contribution might be increased further by cultivating more and more high-value fruits in the homesteads using latest agro-technologies.
Advising the agro-scientists to popularise fruits farming, the experts asked them to produce and distribute high-yielding, hybrid and developed varieties of high-value fruit saplings among the farmers and common people in rural Bangladesh.
"It is highly possible to earn huge amounts of foreign exchange by exporting locally produced fruits abroad after meeting the demand within the country and the farmers can earn the highest profit through cultivating fruits all around," they added.
Chaired by Chief Scientific Officer of Burirhat Agriculture Research Centre (BARC) Dr M Hafiz Ullah, the function organised by BARC on its premises yesterday was attended by UNO of Gangachara upazila Mukesh Chandra Biswas as the chief guest.
Gangachara Upazila Agriculture Officer MA Wazed and Senior Scientific Officer of BARC Dr Abu Alam Mandal were present as the special guests in the farmers' gathering that was attended by 200 farmers of the area.
The agro-experts in their speeches said about 10 per cent of the total earnings from agro-production is now being contributed by fruits farming throughout the country and the contribution might be increased further by cultivating more and more high-value fruits in the homesteads using latest agro-technologies.
Advising the agro-scientists to popularise fruits farming, the experts asked them to produce and distribute high-yielding, hybrid and developed varieties of high-value fruit saplings among the farmers and common people in rural Bangladesh.
"It is highly possible to earn huge amounts of foreign exchange by exporting locally produced fruits abroad after meeting the demand within the country and the farmers can earn the highest profit through cultivating fruits all around," they added.