Strawberries are being cultivated in the sandy soil of an abandoned brickyard in Chandpur. Ozark Beauty strawberries have been grown extensively by making pockets on about 2% of the land experimentally.
These strawberries, are grown in a completely organic way.
Entrepreneur Helal Uddin started cultivating strawberries along with other delicious foreign juicy fruits in the abandoned brick field of Shahtali village of Shahmahmudpur union of Chandpur Sadar Upazila.
Which is now known as Fruits Valley Agro.
He started cultivating different varieties of experimental fruits from 2020. Now carrying the identity of a popular amateur farmer or entrepreneur.
Helal Uddin told that last year, “I grew three American varieties of Strawberry in Fruits Valley. But due to bad weather, it did not see the face of success.”
However, he claimed that this year a completely new variety of Strawberry called Ozark Beauty has been widely grown. Each of his trees yielded at least one kg of strawberries. But these are not being marketed commercially.
Shawkat Ali Akhand, one of the visitors who came to see the strawberry cultivation, said that Helal Uddin has opened everyone’s eyes by cultivating various kinds of juicy foreign fruits including strawberries in a brickfield on the bank of Dakatiya river in Chandpur. There are many such places on the banks of the Padma-Meghna river in Chandpur.
Now everyone will express interest in such cultivation.
Chandpur Sadar Upazila Deputy Assistant Agriculture Officer Naresh Chandra Das told: “Because these strawberries are fragrant, tasty and juicy, large in size and tall. Nice to see.
Entrepreneur Helal Uddin has proved that strawberries are also cultivated especially in sandy soils. We will now propose to cultivate it all over the country. Because of its low cost of cultivation. The higher the yield, the higher the profit.”
News Room, February 17,2022