A weeklong tree fair began on the premises of the district town's Independence Square this morning amid much enthusiasm.
District administration and Social Forest Zone, Gaibandha jointly arranged the fair that was inaugurated by Divisional Forest Officer of Social forest division, Rangpur Md. Matlubour Rahman. A discussion meeting was also held around 10 am today with Deputy Commissioner (DC) Oliur Rahman in the chair.
Additional DC-General Sadequr Rahman, Additional Police Super (Admin and Finance) Abul Khayer, Deputy Director of the Department of Agricultural Extension Md. Belal Hossain, Chairman of Sadar Upazila Parishad Shah Sarwar Kabir, Senior Journalists KM Rezaul Haque and Md. Shariful Islam, Officer-in- Charge (OC) of Social Forest Office, Social Forest Zone, Gaibandha addressed the function, among others. The speakers underscored the need for planting more trees at the homesteads and open spaces to protect the environment from its degradation and to save the country from catastrophe of climate-change side by side with meeting the nutritional and wood demand.
Officer-in-Charge of forest office here Md. Shariful Islam explained various beneficial aspects of trees and homestead gardening in human life and urged all to plant saplings of fruit bearing and timber trees around their homesteads to help for maintaining the ecological balance. He also sought whole hearted cooperation of all to build social movement for planting all types of trees in the district to benefit the people both economically and nutritionally.
DC Oliur Rahman called upon all to visit the fair with their children and to buy different saplings of fruit bearing tress from the fair to boost production of fruits for mitigating the growing demand.
More than 20 stalls of different government departments, non-government organisations and private nurseries have been set up in the fair.
Earlier, a grand rally was brought out in the district town marking the tree fair.
