Speakers at the inaugural ceremony of a fair here on Tuesday afternoon called upon all
for boosting fruit production to meet nutrition demand, alleviate poverty and achieve selfreliance.
They favoured innovation of modern technologies for cultivation of hybrid variety fruits
through imparting training to all concerned, including women and commoners, to further
increase productions.
They were addressing inaugural ceremony of the three- day ‘Fruit Tree Fair-2013’ being
jointly organised by the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) and Kawnia upazila
administration on Kawnia upazila parishad premises.
With Kawnia upazila chairman Anwarul Islam in the chair, Member of the Parliament
from Rangpur-4 constituency and valiant freedom fighter (FF) Tipu Munshi attended the
ceremony as the chief guest and formally launched the fair by cutting ribbon.
District Plant Protection Specialist of the DAE Ruhul Amin, upazila vice-chairmen Selina
Talukder Sheuly and Rafikul Islam, addressed the ceremony as the special guests.
Upazila Agriculture Officer Mahbubur Rahman, Joint Secretary of district Awami
League (AL) Mazed Ali Babul, General Secretary of Kawnia upazila AL Abdul Hannan,
FF Sarder Abdul Hakim, AL leaders Hakibur Rahman Master also spoke.
Officials of the DAE, Department of Forest, Bangladesh Agriculture Development
Corporation, Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute and NGOs, nursery owners,
students and farmers attended.
Huge varieties of fruits, including indigenous species, and many varieties of fruit tree
saplings are being exhibited in the fair by the private sector nursery owners, agriculture
related departments and entrepreneurs.
Referring to the brighter prospect of fruit production, the speakers suggested for bringing
all stakeholders into an integrated approach to enhance production of the indigenous,
high yielding and hybrid variety fruits.
They pout special emphasis on increasing production of high-valued, hybrid and
developed varieties of fruits for meeting nutritional demand as well as achieving
economic self-reliance by the rural people.
In his speech, the chief guest said the country has achieved revolutionary success in
social afforestation and asked the people for cultivating indigenous species of fruits along
with hybrid fruits those have huge nutritional values.
He also called upon the experts and scientists to innovate more high yielding and hybrid
varieties of fruits aiming at increasing productions round the year to meet total nutritional
demand for the common people and achieve self-reliance by them. –BSS, Rangpur
