Returnee Mostafa Dreams of Success in Banana Farming
Nurul Mostafa, who came home to Mirsarai ill after years abroad, started a banana garden with 50 seedlings and now pays for his sons' college from it.
Nurul Mostafa, who came home to Mirsarai ill after years abroad, started a banana garden with 50 seedlings and now pays for his sons' college from it.
A government doctor from Madhupur in Tangail has drawn attention by growing Boro paddy in the Aus season and getting a bumper yield, and neighbours are now following him.
A 22-year-old college student in Sonatala, Bogura, has turned his love of plants into a nursery that earns him Tk 40,000 to 50,000 a month.
A farmer in Rupsha, Khulna, has grown a crop of paddy from grain shed at harvest, without tilling or transplanting, and neighbours are keen to copy him.
A Sharsha farmer who learnt about black rice online has planted three bighas of it, and crowds come every day to see the crop.
Instead of chasing a job after his master's, Naimul Hasan Shamim built Faridpur's largest orchard of year-round Katimon mangoes.
A Mirsarai shopkeeper turned farmer expects about 4 tonnes of summer watermelon from 50 decimals and sales of Tk 3 to 3.5 lakh.
Four lemon saplings bought for Tk 25 in 1996 grew into a 65-decimal orchard that earns Adhir Chandra Roy up to Tk 2 lakh a year.
A 23-year-old honours student from a remote Bogura village earns about Tk 40,000 a month from a mushroom centre he built with family help.
A Jashore woman who took over her family's burden after her husband's accident has turned her life around by growing dragon fruit organically.
A young man in Longadu, Rangamati, has succeeded in growing the foreign fruit rambutan on a trial basis for the first time in the area.
A Jagannath University student has found success with a two-bigha dragon fruit orchard in Bhanga, Faridpur, inspiring educated young people in the area.
After working in 22 countries, Abu Bakar Siddique Sumon has turned to commercial papaya farming at home in Barishal's Babuganj and expects to sell Tk 20 lakh worth this year.