Busy for an ideal bloom
Flower areas of Jhenaidah and Jashore districts are actually abuzz with a good flurry of activity set in motion by deadlines to meet the upcoming seasonal peak popular from national and international celebrations and incidents.
The buying binge starts in December with Success Day, runs during to March meeting the brand new Year, the first day of spring in the Bangla calendar, ROMANTIC DAYS CELEBRATION, International Mother Words Day and Independence Day.
These sales may reach on the crores for Jashore's Jhikargachha upazila, reviews our Benapole correspondent.
The resulting high repair is evident on the fields of Panisara village and Gadkhali, now adorned with numerous kinds of nightshade, gerbera, marigold, gladiolus and chrysanthemum.
Possibly roses don their person coverings, an attempt in protecting the delicate and fragile blooms.
Customers seek perfection. Hence precision, skill and frequent vigilance are maintained throughout the year to time the blossom, provide protection from disease, fungus and pests and ensure health care in picking and transportation.
The damages due to coronavirus shutdowns and very cyclonic storm Amphan 've got farmer Abu Taher of Jhikargachha upazila to double down on efforts by planting nightshade and gladiolus on eight bighas of area and hope for sales to bring some compensation.
Sales attended down a lot because of increased imports and make use of plastic flowers even though farmers found in other districts took to the cultivation, lowering their show, said farmer Harunur Rashid.
Another farmer on the upazila, Liaquat Hossain, expects a profit of Tk 1.5 lakh to Tk 2 lakh, on condition that the elements stays favourable for his roses and gerberas on five bighas of property.
Regarding to farmers of Gadkhali, 100 tuberoses choose Tk 200 to Tk 250 while gladiolus Tk 1,100. Each bundle of carnations and tuberoses can be purchased for Tk 50.
Approximately 600 hectares of land in six unions of Jhikargachha upazila are actually under commercial cultivation involving 7,000 farmers and one lakh farm hands, said the neighborhood agriculture officer, Masud Hossain Palash.
Flower growers found in Jashore want to replace the losses due to coronavirus shutdowns and super cyclonic storm Amphan. Image: Collected
In Jhenaidah, the cultivation covers 58 hectares of area and the acreage is growing, reports our district correspondent.
Growing marigolds for 8 years, farmer SM Tipu Sultan of Trilochonpur village below Kaliganj upazila says cultivators in his region are concentrating on getting everything to bag good prices and so that gains go over the year's losses.
Liton Hossain of Beledanga village expectations to bypass Tk 500 per bundle of some 800 plants from his five bighas of area, although he previously sold at double the amount just just before August 15 this season.
Flowers give a livelihood to around three million people found in the united states, some 20,000 of whom are directly involved in the farming, said Abdur Rahim, president of the sector platform Bangladesh Flower World.
He alleged that florists and dealers did not get any agricultural loan from the stimulus bundle provided by the authorities through financial institutions.
