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TREE-FAIR-GAIBANDHA
Week-long fruit bearing, timber tree fair begins in Gaibandha
GAIBANDHA, July 7, 2018 (BSS) – A week-long fruit bearing and timber tree
fair began on the premises of Independence Square of the town here on Friday
amid much enthusiasm to all the concerned.
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) and Social Forest Department
(SFD) jointly have arranged the fair in cooperation with district
administration.
A discussion meeting was also held on Friday afternoon with deputy
director of DAE AKM Ruhul Amin in the chair.
Deputy Commissioner (DC) Gautam Chandra Pal addressed the function as the
chief guest and additional police super Moynul Haque, and divisional forest
officer, Rangpur Rafiquzzaman Shah, were present as the special guests.
Additional deputy director (Crop) Shawkat Osman, general secretary of
district nursery owners’ association Abdus Salam and journalist Sarker M.
Shahiduzzaman spoke at the function among others while Sadar upazila
agriculture officer AKM Sadiqul Islam was the moderator.
The speakers in a function here today underscored the need for planting
more trees at the homesteads and open spaces to protect the environment from
its degradation and to save the country from catastrophe of climate change.
As the prices of all species of fruits are very costly, there is no
alternative to producing local and indigenous fruits abundantly to the
growing demand of nutrition for the people, they added.
Terming trees as inseparable part of life and livelihood and also the best
friends of the people, the speakers urged all to plant fruit bearing trees
side by side with planting timber and medicinal ones and nurture those like
their own children.
DC Gautam Chandra Pal in his speeches explained various beneficial aspects
of trees and homestead gardening in human life and urged all to plant
saplings of fruit bearing and timber trees around their homesteads to help
maintain ecological balance.
The DC also sought whole hearted cooperation of all to build social
movement for planting all types of trees in the district to benefit the
people both economically and nutritionally.
DD of DAE AKM Ruhul Amin in his presidential speeches called upon all to
visit the fair with their children and to buy different saplings of fruit
bearing tress from it to boost production of fruits to meet its growing
demand.
Later, the DC distributed over 200 saplings of fruit bearing and timber
trees including medicinal ones to the students of different high schools and
colleges here and formally inaugurated the fair and went round its stalls.
Earlier, DC Gautam Chandra Pal formally inaugurated the fair through
cutting a red tape as the chief guest.
More than 30 stalls of different government departments, non government
organizations and private nurseries have been set up in the fair.
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