BRAHMANBARIA, Apr 06: The nursery business is gaining popularity in the district. About seven hundred small and big nurseries have already been set up in different areas of eight upazilas where at least four thousand workers are engaged in earning their livelihood. There are various species of saplings including flower, mango, jackfruit, blackberry, kazi peara which is a high-yielding variety of guava, mahogany, rain tree, koroi and eucalyptus at the Fatema Nursery in Sarial Upazila. The owner of the nursery told this correspondent that he used to sell eight hundred to one thousand saplings daily in the rainy season and earned a net profit of around Tk 12,000 per month.
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