Success in the cultivation of dragonship in Narsingdi

After the response to the Rambutan and Malta cultivation of foreign fruit in Narsinghdi's Shibpur, the Mexican dragon fruit is going to open new possibilities. For the first time, Ariful Islam Mridha has planted the Dragon Garden of Trade commercially for 50 bighas of land. He is also Chairman of Shibpur Upazila Parishad. The number of dragon saplings in this garden is about 3,000 in the village of Purbgaon in Chakradia union of the upazila.

In the year 2017, every tree planted in September of this tree has started producing fruit. Ariful Islam Mridha has hoped that results will be available this month. Local agricultural officials said that Narsingdi's weather and soil are suitable for dragon cultivation, because anyone can achieve success by cultivating a dragon.

Ariful Islam Mridha told Kaler Kantho that the National Nutrition Project
And he collected more than three thousand saplings of dragon fruit from Natore Horticulture Center. In September of 017, the plant's garden of orchard planted around 50 lakhs of rupees in the land of 7.5 bighas. Three types of dragon fruit, white, red, have been planted in the garden. In order to increase the wages of laborers, dung fertilizers, one thousand two hundred cement pumps, one thousand two abandoned tires of cars, prisons for the garden for protection, and electric illumination for flower pollination cost around Tk 50 lakh in the garden. About half of the money was spent on labor wages.
Shibpur Upazila chairman said, the cost of building a garden at first time seems a little too much, but the regular cost is not very much. The dragon yield is available for seven to eight months of the year. If every fruit is above 500 grams of weight, then hopefully this fruit can be sold at 500 kg kg in the garden. If weighing 500 grams weighing three to four hundred rupees can be sold. He found that fruit production is possible for most of the year, as it is possible to achieve success in the cultivation of dragon.
Ariful Islam Mridha said, since the garden was created, the local people had a strong vision towards the garden. Since flowering, people's interest was increasing. Now the news has become a result of the fact that almost every day interested people from Shibpur and neighboring upazila are rushing to know about dragon garden visits, cost and planting methods. There is a plan to expand the dragon garden next to the production of the seedlings.
According to the commentary given by agricultural officials, the yield of the dragon fruit is not generally available if the age of the plant is not one year old. At the beginning of the month of May, in the beginning of May, Ariful Islam started to receive flowers in almost every flower of the garden of the garden, and it was expected that a satisfactory yield would be available. Now it has taken shape. It is also initially confirmed that weather and soil in this area are suitable for dragon cultivation.
Asked about being interested in cultivating a dragon fruit garden despite being busy people's representative, Ariful Islam Mridha told Kaler Kantho that, presently, the youths can not go to work unemployed while they do not get jobs after studying. They are disgraced in farming. Dragon farming is fancy farming and profitable undoubtedly. If any unemployed youth is interested in cultivating a dragon after seeing my garden, then my gardening will be beneficial. I want to spend the rest of my life on farming.
Deputy District DAE said. Latafat Hossain said that the initiative of commercially inaugurating the Dragon Board of the first Upazila chairman is undoubtedly of praise. The soil and weather here are very useful for the cultivation of dragon. It is possible to achieve success by cultivating this fruit in foreign countries because of the high prices of any fruit. For this reason many are becoming interested in the cultivation of dragon. Interested farmers are advised to cultivate dragon. Dragon seedlings provide fruit for 25 years continuously. Every tree is possible to sell fruit and saplings of 10-15 thousand rupees a year.