Bangladesh Mushroom cultivation to fight poverty:  

Matiranga, a foreign upazila of hilly Khagrachhari district, has planned massive cultivation of mushrooms to fight poverty with a slogan titled ‘Safety through Development’. Sixty families of Matiranga, 90km off the port city, have started cultivating mushroom after receiving training during this regard at the local army zone headquarters. Having training on mushroom cultivation, they need harvested several batches of products to urge support, a minimum of to some extent, during the last two months.

Initially the families from six small localities of Charpara, Muslimpara, Babupara, Chowdhurypara, Moieetri Nagar and Mandirpara received the training under Pragati Mushroom Training Project organised and financed by the local zone headquarters of Bangladesh Army. They received certificates from the local army zone commander at a vibrant function at Matiranga Degree College on December 15.

 

Zharna Tripura of Babupara said the training will help them cultivate mushroom. it'll also help them for consumption and marketing. Aneu Chowdhury Nayan, a ward commissioner and headman, said the tribal people are going to be ready to differentiate the non-poisonous mushrooms from the poisonous ones while collecting them from wild state following the training.

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She said but such naturally grown mushrooms aren't always available when the gathering is insufficient. Aneu said after the training we now cultivate mushrooms to consume and sell some . While visiting the world on Saturday this correspondent saw the locals are growing mushrooms in every house in six paras (areas) after the training. Abul Bashar Miajee, a senior lecturer of Matiranga Degree College, looked very happy while he was showing the “Mada” (coils of rotting straws) with different stage of growing mushrooms his wife Jobeda Khanam raised in rows on shelves at a corner of alittle makeshift structure.

 

Bashar said he eats mushrooms because it helps him check diabetes. He said he also possesses an honest harvest to sell within the last two months and before harvesting subsequent batch he has received requests from many beforehand to provide them mushrooms.

Udya Kiron Tripura of Moieetri Nagar was beat smile while he was showing the wonderful growth of the mushrooms he's cultivating at a corner of his house.

 

Udya said he's having three harvests from one batch in 45 days and therefore the cost is additionally very nominal. Inspired with the success he's now getting to raise more Madas and cultivate mushrooms in wider scale for marketing. Dr Mohammad Habibur Rahman, a university teacher, said with an appropriate climate Matiranga features a huge prospect of mushroom. Meanwhile, encouraged by the success of the trained mushroom growers, the people from remote areas of Matiranga are expressing their interest to receive the training at the Matiranga Army Headquarters and cultivate mushrooms.

 

Matiranga Army Zone Commander said they need an idea to coach as many as 500 families and supply them with seeds to cultivate mushrooms. At an equivalent time they're helping the mushroom growers form a cooperatives society to gather seeds and marketing their products within the city for a far better price, he said.

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