Agriculture Officials Amazed by Delwar's Colourful Tulips
The head of the Department of Agricultural Extension visited a Gazipur flower grower whose Dutch tulips bloomed, saying tulips can be grown successfully in Bangladesh.
The head of the Department of Agricultural Extension visited a Gazipur flower grower whose Dutch tulips bloomed, saying tulips can be grown successfully in Bangladesh.
A Noakhali university student photographs the neglected wildflowers that bloom by roadsides and in the woods.
Flower farmer Delwar Hossain has made tulips bloom in his Sreepur garden from bulbs brought from the Netherlands.
Sonapati, a strikingly beautiful yellow flower also called Chandraprabha, blooms in large clusters at the branch tips in summer and the monsoon.
A flower garden created and tended by its principal has made Puranbazar Degree College on the Dakatia river one of the most beautiful campuses in Chandpur.
FlowersIn February 2020 Jagonews24 reported that gerbera, though a foreign flower, was among Bangladesh's top 10 flowers, with each bloom selling for Tk 30 to 50 and a grower able to earn Tk 60,000 to 70,000 a month.
As kadam flowers bloom in the monsoon, street children and homeless people in Dhaka earn a living by selling them.
FlowersIn Bhaluka, Mymensingh, a private industrial group went from building polynet houses to marketing gerbera within a year, growing 12 varieties on 12 bighas.
Chrysanthemums, a popular winter flower, can be grown in yards, on verandas and on rooftops with the right soil, fertiliser and care.
Shykh Seraj visits Royal Van Zanten, a Dutch flower company founded in 1862 that breeds, grows and exports bulbs worldwide.
Gladiolus can be grown in any soil in the yard or on the roof, and with the right care yields about 24 tonnes of flower spikes a hectare.
After three decades of commercial flower farming, growers in Savar say land is being lost to non-farm uses while artificial flowers undercut them.
In Uganda, the 162-hectare Mairye Estate grows fully export-oriented roses and salad crops in 60 greenhouses, half of them hydroponic.