In farming, investing with the necessary knowledge of crops leaves little chance of failure. Many farmers, young entrepreneurs and even people from other professions are now taking up commercial farming with understanding.
A teacher who farms
Schoolteacher Harun-or-Rashid Musa of Bagmari village, Kotchandpur, Jhenaidah, is one of them. He has loved farming since childhood and helped his father in the fields while studying. Later, alongside his job, he wanted to grow diverse fruits and crops on his ancestral land rather than simply hold on to it as heritage. He travelled at home and abroad in pursuit of success and, using his experience, broke with conventional farming to build a commercial farm.
Twenty bighas of fruit
He now has a 20-bigha integrated fruit orchard producing avocado, malta, persimmon, longan, Thai jamun, orange, dragon fruit, Philippine sugarcane and other crops.
He took up high-value crops in 2005, first growing BAU kul and guava, and has since experimented with dragon fruit, Philippine sugarcane and a range of high-value local and foreign fruits.
Source: Shykh Seraj, Krishi Dibanishi. First published in Bengali on The Agro News.
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