Week long tree fair begins in Gaibandha

A week long tree fair began on the premises of Independence Square of the town here this morning amid much enthusiasm to all the concerned.

District administration and Social Forest Zone, Gaibandha jointly arranged the fair that was inaugurated by Whip of the Jatiya Sangshad and local lawmaker Mahabub Ara Begum Gini.

A discussion was also held this morning with additional district magistrate (ADM) Mashiur Rahman in the chair.

Deputy Director of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) Khorshed Alam Sarker, Divisional Forest Officer Rangpur Mollah Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, additional Police Super Md. Ibrahim Hossain, officer-in-charge of Social Forest Office, Social Forest Zone, Gaibandha Md. Shariful Islam, addressed the function, among others.

The speakers in their speeches 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 side by side with meeting the nutritional and wood demand.

Officer-in-charge of the forest office Md. Shariful Islam in his speech explained various beneficial aspects of the 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 the ecological balance of the area.

He also sought wholehearted cooperation of all to build social movement for planting all types of trees in the district to benefit the people both economically and nutritionally.

Whip Gini in her concluding speech 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.

More than 30 stalls of different government departments, non-government organizations and private nurseries have been set up in the fair.

Earlier, a grand rally was brought out in the district town marking the tree fair. (BSS)