February brings expect florists
Days will be longer for the flower growers for another couple of months because of its increased demand due to back-to-back national events, beginning with Pahela Falgun and ROMANTIC DAYS CELEBRATION today, both that will be observed on a single day found in Bangladesh this year.
Md Abdur Rahim, president of Bangladesh Flower Society, expectations Tk 50 crore worthwhile of flowers will be sold today throughout the country.
"Farmers have incurred huge losses due to the Covid-19 outbreak and cyclone Amphan this season."
Various flowers got wasted on the field as there were no takers.
The growers will require some more time to recuperate from the devastation due to the pandemic and the cyclone, he said.
"If flower lovers get back to their habit of extra cash for flowers, retail revenue will surely increase and benefit farmers."
Among the blooms, roses are the state of the art and widely cultivated ones.
The wholesale price of each bundle of 300 bits of roses now hovers between Tk 2,200 to Tk 2,500, which could hardly hit Tk 800 to Tk 1,000 in most of the time of the entire year.
Around 1,500 farmers cultivated flowers found in around 300 hectares of land in Savar this year, which above 250 hectares were roses.
Abdul Khaleque Mollah, who cultivated rose in his 1.5 acre of land this season in Shyampur area in Savar, sold roses worth Tk 30,000 Friday.
He was pleased with the current prices.
Mollah expects to sell Tk 3 lakh well worth of roses this month owing to the twin festivals and the International Mom Language Day, which is observed on February 21.
