Nature lovers gathering in Sylhet fifteen- day tree fair

Sylhet Bureau:
A fifteen-day tree fair and tree plantation campaign in Sylhet division is gaining momentum at Sylhet govt. Alia Madrasha Ground in the city.
A large number of tree lovers thronged the tree fair on Wednesday with the nursery owners turning the fair ground into a fiesta of different local and foreign varieties.
Short varieties of plants, especially early fruiting saplings are the most desirable by the urban planters and gardeners as those are suitable for gardening.
Plant lovers can buy from an array of saplings of seasonal fruits to flowers, fruit, ornamental and medicinal plants and banana plants derived through tissue culture to bonsai. Different kinds of farm instrument like grubber, sprayer, pot, fertilizer are also being sold at the fair.

An employee of tree fair control room Biplob Hussain said that a total of 7938 tree saplings have been sold on Wednesday.
Large crowds were seen at Sylhet Nursery as they are displaying different kinds of dwarf fruit plants.
The visitors were impressed by the fruits already hanging on the plants.

Md Khaledur Rahman Chawdhury , the owner of Ananda nursery, said he bought different kinds of dwarf fruit plants mainly targeting the urban gardeners.
He is also displaying moringa plants of different sizes and ages at his stall. “The plants bear fruit throughout the year and the price of each plant ranges between Tk 500 to Tk 800,” Chawdhury said.