As chilly climate sets in with its cool climate, the mountainous fields of Jhikargachha upazila in Jashore own begun to be in bloom with vibrant vegetation.
After enduring the merciless summer season and monsoon, the station’s flower farmers are now dreaming of brighter days, hoping to promote vegetation worth Tk100 crore this season, as a result of in fact helpful chilly climate climate.
They are working tirelessly to manufacture the plenty of the upcoming high season.
Agriculture officers notify that whereas flower cultivation continues all yr spherical on this station, the halt season spans five months, from December to April.
Customarily, the ask for vegetation is absolute best within the route of occasions corresponding to Martyred Intellectuals Day, Victory Day, Fresh one year, Pahela Falgun, Valentine’s Day, Worldwide Mother Language Day, Independence Day and Pahela Boishakh.
Farmers in Godkhali, Panisara, Navaron, Nirbashkhola and Haria in Jashore particularly thought their cultivation to target these events.
Sunnat Ali, a farmer from Potuyapara village, has cultivated roses on two bighas of land. He acknowledged, “I’m hanging in extra efforts to thrill in the fields now. If the costs are appropriate within the route of the upcoming events, I trudge to manufacture a profit.”
Per the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), spherical 7,000 farmers cultivate vegetation on 1,200 hectares of land within the station.
The station, centred spherical Godkhali – one amongst Bangladesh’s most attention-grabbing flower markets – offers some 70% of the nation’s flower ask.
Farmers own planted flower forms, alongside side roses, tuberoses, gladioli, gerberas, marigolds and chrysanthemums.
Earlier this yr, unseasonal heavy rainfall and excessive temperatures posed important challenges for Jashore’s flower farmers.
Many crops had been broken, main to monetary losses for farmers, who’re now hanging extra efforts into their fields in describe to recuperate.
Flower farmer Sohag Hossain, acknowledged, “I’ve cultivated vibrant gladiolus on one and a half of bighas of land. Many crops had been broken by the rain. Every bigha has rate me Tk1.5 lakh. If the costs don’t seem like appropriate, we are in a position to face losses.”
Yet another farmer, Siam Hossain, acknowledged, “We’ve currently weeded the flower fields and utilized fertilisers and pesticides. Now, it be ethical a topic of typical irrigation. If the market holds solid, this yr will be very a success for us.”
A issue over with to the bustling Godkhali wholesale flower market published an optimistic start to the season. Freshly harvested vegetation had been being transported by ability of autos, bicycles and bikes to investors all over the nation.
Alongside the Jashore-Benapole freeway, farmers line up on both sides with an array of flower forms, watching for wholesale investors.
A issue over with to the Godkhali market published that roses had been selling at Tk4–Tk5 per fragment, whereas tuberoses had been priced at Tk6 each. Shimmering gladiolus vegetation fetched Tk12-Tk15 each, looking out on quality, and gerberas had been offered at Tk12–Tk14 each.
Moreover, bundles of kamini leaves for flower preparations had been priced at Tk50, whereas bundles of gypsophila offered for Tk100. Chrysanthemums for garland-making had been priced at Tk300–Tk400 per 100 vegetation, and marigolds had been offered at Tk300–Tk400 per thousand pieces.
Abdur Rahim, president of the Jashore Flower Producers and Marketing Cooperative Society, acknowledged, “This yr, flower farmers suffered important losses due to coarse warmth adopted by untimely rainfall. Nonetheless, if all the pieces goes successfully, vegetation worth Tk100 crore will be offered from this station this season.”
Per the Department of Agriculture, the farmers’ expectations have a tendency to be met this season if in fact helpful climate conditions persist and market ask stays solid.
Jhikargachha Upazila Agriculture Officer Md Jahangir Alam acknowledged, “Farmers are now extraordinarily busy tending to their fields. If the climate and market conditions dwell in fact helpful, they are expected to alternate vegetation worth Tk100 crore this season. Yearly, farmers on this station promote vegetation worth spherical Tk150 crore.”
