Passion fruit produced by Gaibandha youth
Sunday, 5 December 2010
Our Correspondent
GAIBANDHA, Dec 4: An enthusiastic young man achieved success in cultivation of passion fruit, a tasty uncommon fruit, on his home yard at Hat Bharatkhali Village under Saghata Upazila in the district.
Concerned sources said successful cultivator Suza Uddoula collected a few number of seeds of the fruit in 2008 from his nephew Major Ikbalur Rahman Sourav, who went to Ivory Coast to join the UN Peace Keeping Mission and brought some fruits from there.
Later, he had sown the seeds on his yard in early 2009 and it grew fast with branches and leaves like bean plants.
Few months after, a large number of fruits appeared in the plants.
More than 300 pieces of fruits were harvested in 2009 for the first time from a plant. In this way, he got over 2000 pieces of fruits from only two plants so far.
Since is not a seasonal fruit, it is harvested all the year round. In a plant, it is found that some fruits have started ripening and others are in the process of being matured, he said.
At present, Suza Uddowla is earning money and becoming self reliant economically by selling the fruits at Taka 1200 per kg and also its seedlings at high rate to the people of the district and other parts of the country.
The cultivation of the plant is easy in our soil. There has been no pest attack in the plants. It is grown on the yards of homestead, surroundings of the house and road sides including abandoned places easily, said M. Shawkat Ali, Saghata Upazila agriculture officer.
Assistant professor of Botany Department of Rangpur Carmichael College Dr. Atiar Rahman said the passion fruit is cultivated in sea coast areas of many developed countries including Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Australia, Mexico and Indonesia.
GAIBANDHA, Dec 4: An enthusiastic young man achieved success in cultivation of passion fruit, a tasty uncommon fruit, on his home yard at Hat Bharatkhali Village under Saghata Upazila in the district.
Concerned sources said successful cultivator Suza Uddoula collected a few number of seeds of the fruit in 2008 from his nephew Major Ikbalur Rahman Sourav, who went to Ivory Coast to join the UN Peace Keeping Mission and brought some fruits from there.
Later, he had sown the seeds on his yard in early 2009 and it grew fast with branches and leaves like bean plants.
Few months after, a large number of fruits appeared in the plants.
More than 300 pieces of fruits were harvested in 2009 for the first time from a plant. In this way, he got over 2000 pieces of fruits from only two plants so far.
Since is not a seasonal fruit, it is harvested all the year round. In a plant, it is found that some fruits have started ripening and others are in the process of being matured, he said.
At present, Suza Uddowla is earning money and becoming self reliant economically by selling the fruits at Taka 1200 per kg and also its seedlings at high rate to the people of the district and other parts of the country.
The cultivation of the plant is easy in our soil. There has been no pest attack in the plants. It is grown on the yards of homestead, surroundings of the house and road sides including abandoned places easily, said M. Shawkat Ali, Saghata Upazila agriculture officer.
Assistant professor of Botany Department of Rangpur Carmichael College Dr. Atiar Rahman said the passion fruit is cultivated in sea coast areas of many developed countries including Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Australia, Mexico and Indonesia.