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Mushroom cultivation, plantation of oil palm tree can reduce poverty in rural areas

Seminar told

Star Business Report
The LGRD and Cooperatives ministry is set to incorporate palm oil tree plantation and mushroom cultivation in its existing projects aiming at lifting female road maintenance workers in rural areas out of poverty, according to a seminar held in Dhaka yesterday.
“We want to encourage plantation of palm oil tree and mushroom cultivation to help hardcore poor in the rural areas. We want to encourage plantation of palm oil tree on
those roadsides under I.GED wherever if is suitable," LGRD Adviser Anwanil Iqbal said at the seminar.
Root level LGED (Local Government Engineering Division) attended the programme, where benefits of mushroom cultivation and palm oil tree plantation were presented.
According to the presentations at the seminar, mushroom cultivation in rural levels will help poor households to get a source of their nutrition and earn money by selling them in the market.
While palm oil tree plantation, according to Bangladesh Palm Oil Development Project, will not only supply required edible oil but also help them earn money. Expansion plantation of palm oil trees on the fallow lands and on the roadsides will also help reduce country's import dependency.
Bangladesh Palm Oil Development Project also claimed that the palm oil tree is suitable for cultivation for all types of soil in Bangladesh and environment friendly.
The LGRD Adviser said the
issue of mushroom cultivation and palm oil tree plantation will be incorporated in the ministry's existing projects, mainly the Tk 943 crore worth five-year Road Maintenance Project.
The RMP project has been undertaken to maintain 98,000 kilometre roads under the LGED by planting trees, which will be taken care of by employing 48,000 female workers in the rural areas to support their livelihoods.
"The RMP has been planned to support poor people in the rural areas. I hope
the plans to promote homestead mushroom cultivation and palm oil tree plantation will help reduce poverty," the adviser said.
Anwarul however said the price of palm oil plant have to be lower to encourage plantation. He also asked local level LGED officials to take steps on how to shift the mushroom cultivation technology to rural areas.
The Adviser said the cultivation of mushroom will spread in village areas if these female road maintenance workers are trained.