Forestry: Five saplings are planted in the trees

Shamsunnahar of Mirpur Pallabi, suffering from cough problems for a few days. His immense trust in herbal remedies for herbal remedies He did not even find a neighbor's house to collect basil leaves. Later, on the advice of a neighbor, he went to the National Plant of Mirpur. There are three Tulsi seedlings from Dhaka's social forestry nursery at 15 taka.

Shamsunnahar said, "I came to buy Tulsi tree at the neighbor's advice. It's fascinating to come. Nowadays, trees are planted at five rupees, it can not be said. "From nursery, he bought a lemon, a guava and a bacon. These six were bought at just 30 taka.

Under the Department of Forests, there are one nursery in all the upazilas of the country. There is a collection of quality standard seeds, seed production from seed and distribution of these saplings in the public at no cost and for sale at a lower price. Anyone who can buy plant seedlings from a nursery for five rupees. As part of this, Dhaka has a social forestry nursery and training center under the social forest department of Dhaka. The nursery is currently in the gardens of the national plant because it does not have its own place.

Dhaka Social Forestry Nursery and Training Center said that as part of the Forest Extension Program, nursery at Bailey Road was started after Partition. Initially the nursery was distributed and distributed free of cost to the public. Since 1974 saplings started selling. Nursery has been brought to the National Plantation Garden since May, 2017 due to leave of Bailey Road. At the beginning price of each of the four parsa was 25 paise. In the year 2016, the price has been fixed at five rupees.

On Wednesday noon, it is seen in the nursery that some are making beds for sowing seeds, someone is taking care of small poultry, some are turning around and showing the seedlings to the buyers.

Light truncated rain came to buy saplings from Dhanmondi Shafiq Islam. He took a turn around and saw nursery tree plantations. After buying some lemons, guava, grapefruit, rice seeds. Shafiq said that trees would be planted on the rooftop of the house, although the time for planting has passed. But he is selling seeds of seed.

Various tree saplings are found in social forest nursery in Mirpur National Plantation Garden. This nursery was earlier in Bailey Road.

There are 12 people, including Mali, the caretaker, in this nursery. They said that in the monsoon season the seedlings are usually sold. However, saplings are sold from here throughout the year. A total of 340,000 saplings have been sold in 2017-18 fiscal year. Although there are all kinds of trees, there is more demand for fruit and woodpeeds. Among these, saplings are sold in guava, lemon, olive, mango, jackfruit, segun, aquatic, oilseed and mahogany. Apart from this, there are many buyers of Bakul, Kanchan and Krishnachura trees. But here are not seasonal flowers.

Mali Jahirul Islam said, the number of older customers is notable even when all the old buyers are present. The educational institutions also collect seedlings from here. However, in the form of Chhaganbagan or some other than the hobby, many people gather tree seedlings.

Buyers said, the sale of saplings at low cost is commendable. But due to lack of publicity, many do not know about this nursery. Apart from that being nursery at the end of the national plant garden, it is very difficult to get here for the elderly. And because of no permission to enter the park, it is very difficult to take the seedlings.

Referring to these allegations, Forest Ranger Moniruzzaman of Social Forest Department (Dhaka) said that due to the forest department's own land for nursery, the buyers are suffering from this type of suffering. The land was not available for the allocation of land, despite repeated application to Dhaka Deputy Commissioner and Housing Authority. Even the quality of the chars is also reduced due to the planting of trees.