Tulsi tea farming plays vital role in eradicating poverty: speakers

GAIBANDHA, Mar 15 (BSS): The speakers at a function here said the farming of Tulsi plants can play a vital role in creating employment and eradicating poverty in northern region. "Tulsi tea is very helpful for human body as it promotes respiratory health, helps enhance digesting power and solves gastrointestinal problems," they said. They said this to an inauguration function of Tulsi tea production at a factory of Palli Badhu Kalyan Sangstha (PBKS) at Khamarpirgachha Village under Sahapara Union of Sadar Upazila in the district on March 13. Mahbub Ara Begum Gini, MP, attended the function and addressed it as the chief guest and General Manager of Bangladesh Bank Sukomal Singh Chowdhury, Managing Director of Small and Medium Enterprise Foundation (SMEF) Syed Rezwanul Kabir and business development manager of Jamuna Bank Limited Moniruzzaman Wali were present as the special guests. With Deputy Commissioner M. Shahidul Islam in the chair, the function was also addressed, among others, by Upazila Nirbahi Officer Ashib Ahsan, deputy general manager of SMEF SM Shahin Anwar, journalist Sircar M. Shahiduzzaman, UP Chairman Mahbubur Rahman Tulu and farmer Mizanur Rahman Mintu. Executive director of PBKS Monowara Talukdar gave the welcome speech. Terming Tulsi as the queen of all herbal trees in the Indian sub continent, the lawmaker urged the farmers to cultivate it at their homesteads and fallow land on a large scale to change their economic condition gradually and also run the factory smoothly. Later, Mahbub Ara formally inaugurated the production of Tulsi tea through switching on the machines. She also went round different sections of the factory and witnessed the tea manufacturing process.