RCHC gains momentum in expanding fruit farming
Saturday, 8 September 2007
RAJSHAHI, Sept 7 (BSS): The Rajshahi Court Horticulture Centre (RCHC) has been playing an important role in making fruit farming profitable in the region.
Through its various development activities, the RCHC run by the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has become popular among fruit growers for the last couple of years.
Established on 2.8 acres of land in 1968, the centre has been currently implementing a three-year "Integrated Qualitative Horticulture Development Project (IQHDP)" with a view to popularising fruit farming at the growers' level.
Horticulture Specialist Monzurul Huda told the news agency that Rajshahi has been regarded as the country's most prospective fruit and vegetable producing region. Production of fruit and vegetable is one of the major income-generating activities in the region, he added.
Considering its environmental and financial aspects, people are becoming interested in horticulture in their homesteads recently creating a huge demand for fruit saplings, vegetable seeds and saplings of ornamental plants.
In addition to infrastructure development like erecting barbed wire fence and preparing nursery sheds, the IQHDP has procured various modern equipments necessary for production of saplings during the last two years.
It has distributed 16,257 saplings of fruit, wood, medicinal and ornamental plants, vegetables and flower seeds and also provided training to 660 farmers.
Besides, some 1,000 farmers were motivated for setting up jujube, mango, guava and litchi orchards. A total of 3,000 high-yielding jujube graft-saplings and 2,000 Thai guava saplings were distributed among them.
Official sources said the RCHC is expected to turn into a potential centre for supplying saplings of high-yielding fruits, wood, vegetable and flower.
Through its various development activities, the RCHC run by the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has become popular among fruit growers for the last couple of years.
Established on 2.8 acres of land in 1968, the centre has been currently implementing a three-year "Integrated Qualitative Horticulture Development Project (IQHDP)" with a view to popularising fruit farming at the growers' level.
Horticulture Specialist Monzurul Huda told the news agency that Rajshahi has been regarded as the country's most prospective fruit and vegetable producing region. Production of fruit and vegetable is one of the major income-generating activities in the region, he added.
Considering its environmental and financial aspects, people are becoming interested in horticulture in their homesteads recently creating a huge demand for fruit saplings, vegetable seeds and saplings of ornamental plants.
In addition to infrastructure development like erecting barbed wire fence and preparing nursery sheds, the IQHDP has procured various modern equipments necessary for production of saplings during the last two years.
It has distributed 16,257 saplings of fruit, wood, medicinal and ornamental plants, vegetables and flower seeds and also provided training to 660 farmers.
Besides, some 1,000 farmers were motivated for setting up jujube, mango, guava and litchi orchards. A total of 3,000 high-yielding jujube graft-saplings and 2,000 Thai guava saplings were distributed among them.
Official sources said the RCHC is expected to turn into a potential centre for supplying saplings of high-yielding fruits, wood, vegetable and flower.