Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has not stopped urging the people of the country to cultivate every inch of land to deal with the global food crisis. She herself has used the unused land of her official residence Ganabhaban.
He created a rare example by turning the entire Ganabhaban into a farm or a farm like Bai in the village.
In the huge courtyard of Ganabhaban, Bangabandhu's daughter Sheikh Hasina is cultivating various types of rice, vegetables, flowers and fruits, honey and fish in addition to rearing poultry, pigeons, cows, and she has also cultivated onions like sesame seeds and mustard.
According to Ganabhaban sources, on Sunday (February 19), almost half of the total cultivation of onions was harvested, which yielded 46 maunds and more than 50 maunds of onions would be available in the rest of the land, said the officials.
The current market price of desi onion is 35 to 40 taka per kg. The price of 46 maunds of onion in Ganabhaban is estimated to be 65 thousand to 73 thousand taka. If a middle class family of five takes the weight of onion as five kg per month, the demand of about 100 maunds of onion produced in Ganabhaban will be met for one month of onion.
Since the coronavirus pandemic, Russia-Ukraine war, sanction-counter-sanctions have been turbulent in the world, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been emphasizing on increasing food production in almost every speech she has been calling for the cultivation of every inch of land in public and private and party events.
Prime Minister's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told the media that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been urging the people of the country to grow crops in every inch of land to deal with the global food crisis. In this continuation, she herself has brought the fall of every inch of the fallen land of the Ganabhaban courtyard into production and has set a unique example by making this call to the people a reality.
According to sources, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is cultivating almost all types of winter vegetables including bamboo, polao rice, red rice in the Ganabhaban courtyard, cauliflower, cabbage, red cabbage, spinach, coriander, gram-Bangla popular Batua green vegetables, broccoli, tomatoes, gourds, beans and other types of vegetables.
Besides, the Prime Minister is also cultivating various types of fruits including sesame, mustard, beehive in mustard, mustard, honey, turmeric, pepper, onion, bay leaves, etc., mango, jackfruit, banana, litchi, plum, dragon, strawberry, etc.
He also supervises these when he gets retirement, said the Ganabhaban officials said that organic fertilizers produced from cow dung are used in Ganabhaban to grow these crops.
In addition, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has separated cow farm, country poultry, pheasant, Chinese duck, swan, pigeon farm in the courtyard of Ganabhaban. She is cultivating various species of fish including rui-kattal, tilapia, chital and even pearls in Ganobhaban pond. She also caught fish in Ganabhaban lake during her leisure time.
According to Ganabhaban sources, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina kept these daily necessities produced for herself and distributed them among the Ganabhaban employees and the poor and helpless people.
