RANGPUR, Oct 4 (BSS): Speakers at a seminar here Saturday said large-scale cultivation of palm trees could meet the demand for edible oil and earn huge foreign currencies.
The palm trees can be planted along the roadsides and other places throughout the country without affecting the traditional arable crops to get unimaginable profits maintaining a balanced environment, they said.
The seminar titled ‘Prospects of palm farming in Bangladesh and our roles’ was organised by Green Bangladesh Ltd (GBL), a subsidiary organisation of Sahaba Group for Rajshahi Division, at the Baro Rangpur Keramotia Kamil Madrasa.
Chaired by Alhaj Shamsul Azam, the seminar was attended by Chairman of the GBL Mohammad Zia Uddin Moral as the chief guest while Deputy Managing Director of the GBL Abdullah Al Kafi, Chief Coordinators for Dhaka Nurul Islam and Mosharraf Hossain from Dinajpur were present as the special guests.
GBL officials Abdul Matin and Abu Syed Mohammad Hamid of Rangpur, Rabiul Islam of Kurigram, palm farmers Abdul Matin, Abdul Mazid, Azgar Ali, Abdus Sattar, Nazmur Rahman, Mozaffar Hossain, Shamsuddoha, Lutfar Rahman, Abul Hossain and union member Afzal Hossain, addressed it.
Besides, GBL officials of different northern districts, palm farmers and public representatives took part in the seminar.
The speakers said the slogan of ‘Liquid gold of green trees shall change whole Bangladesh’ would come true within the next few years if proper attention and importance were given to palm tree plantation under government, private and personal initiatives.
The soil and the climatic condition are very much favourable for palm farming throughout the country and its massive cultivation would accelerate the process of poverty alleviation in rural Bangladesh and build a developed digital Bangladesh, they said.
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