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BSS-03
LOCAL FRUITS-NARSINGDI
Native fruits extinct gradually in Narsingdi
NARSINGDI, Sept. 11, 2018 (BSS)-Various kinds of native fruits are
gradually disappearing in the district due to adverse impact of climate
change, use of agro-chemicals and lack of a proper planning on production and
marketing of the fruits by the concerned departments.
Sources with the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) said once
Narsingdi was considered as one of the leading districts of Bangladesh in
producing indigenous fruits.
The district was famous for producing delicious fruits like gab, deowa,
kathbel, sufada, kaow, hog-plam, dalim, blackberry, rose-berry, olive,
tamarind, star-apple, wood-apple chalta, shorifa, kamranga etc.
But with the passage of time, the sources said, production of the fruits
has been declining alarmingly posing a serious threat to the very existences
of the varieties.
DAE Deputy Director Latapat Hossain has attributed the drastic fall in the
production of local fruits to climate change, unplanned urbanization, air-
pollution and indiscriminate use of agri-chemicals and pesticides.
Hossain said the DAE is encouraging the village people for planting
saplings of native fruit varieties on a large scale.
Apart from this, he said, exhibitions of local fruits are being arranged in
the district for increasing the farming of the varieties.
Monsur Ali, 75, a resident of Adiabad village under Raipura upazila, said,
housing for the increasing of population is the main reason behind the
declining of native fruit varieties. Many villagers are building houses
cutting fruit bearing trees, he added.
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