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Bangladeshi farmers breed new life in Oman

SHYKH SERAJ
Nursery business is spreading all over the world. Oman is no exception where I have been to see their progress. I have been to Muscat, the capital city of Oman. At the heart of Muscat, Bangladeshi farmers are doing wonderfully well. There are around twenty nurseries here, among which, four are run by Bangladeshis. Previously, they used to grow 'Dateplum' and 'Baroil' tree, a thorny tree, which is a specialty food for camels. After the arrival of Bangladeshis in Oman, the country is experiencing roadside gardening and eating different vegetables. The Omanis are now more interested for ornamented planting for decorating their houses along with vegetable cultivation on their courtyard. That is why the business is gradually spreading out. This is how Bangladeshis have secured a significant place in nursery business and vegetable production.
There are many nurseries at SIP Walid area of Oman's capital city Muscat. The nurseries expanded here during the last twenty years or so. Sultanate of Oman is giving greater importance over the issues like making a greener country with calm shades of trees all around. The people of Oman experienced good results because of this green movement. The rate of rainfall was pretty low once but now because of more trees being planted all around Oman, rainfalls have increased significantly.
Umar Abdul Aziz Nursery in the Amina area of Muscat where two brothers from Bangladeshs' Laxmipur district, Jasim and Foyez, started off with their efforts. They imported more than hundreds of plants, including fruit plants like lychee, papaya, jackfruit and others. I talked with Nurul Amin, working in the nursery.
Are the Omanis getting attracted to plantation? The interest is growing immensely. Do they buy Bangali fruits? They buy jackfruits.
These nurseries of Oman are similar to one-stop-service centres. The customers get all the necessary inputs for plantation from the nursery. Fertilizer, pesticide, cutting tools, tubs, stands-everything gets sold here. What 1 noticed most is the pottery inside the nursery. You can find different kinds of flower tubs here. All these came from Vietnam. We also have different kinds of potteries but still we couldn't put these into international business stream. I hope those who are involved with pottery industry, will take effective initiatives.
Vietnam is securing their place in the pottery business around the world. All the tubs come from Vietnam. There are many organizations in Bangladesh who are making even more beautiful tubs and they are selling those locally. However, we couldn't grab the international market. That is why we need entrepreneurs who would be able to export the Bangladeshi pottery all over the world. As I was saying about one-stop-service, it is important to ensure that a customer gets everything from one place. Dhaka's agriculturalist nursery is a good example.
If one wants to decorate the indoor and outdoor of his house, he can easily collect all the necessary plants and inputs from the nursery. Regarding these issues, I also talked with
Rafiqul Islam, a worker of the nursery.
"We have urea, flower tubs and also plastic pots. We have to keep all these items in the nursery because we don't want our customer to go elsewhere"
"I have noticed beautiful Vietnamese flower tubs in the nursery."
"In Bangladesh, there are more attractive flower tubs. Why don't you bring those?"
"It's not feasible; one has to bear so many unnecessary costs."
The entire Arab world is very much sentient to preserve the heritage. They abide by the traditional heritages everywhere, even while using daily usable commodities. Now they aim towards setting up greenery across the country because of the present context of the world. Their effort of cooling the harsh nature knows no bounds and that’s why nurseries are expanding pretty fast all over Oman.
Bangladeshis have converted hundreds of hectares of desert land into productive farmlands and ensured
greenery in Oman like they have done in almost everywhere around the world which has been featured on Hridoye Mati O Manush. Bangladeshis have helped establishing agro-market infrastructure in Oman and worked as the agent of change. The success and effective working spirit of Bangladeshis in Oman is certainly to be followed by Bangladeshis living around
the world. We believe Bangladesh Government will also value these successes, which will also help the government in taking effective measures for more working opportunities in the Middle East countries for the Bangladeshis. Success will be accomplished in the development of true bilateral relationship with foreign countries, as well.