Zafarul Sadique, Sariakandi (Bogura)

Sunflower flower garden has become the entertainment center of the audience in Sariakandi, Bogra.

The entrance fee of Tk 20 is being charged from visitors to the garden. Visitors are crowded to enjoy the beauty of sunflower flowers in a fascinating atmosphere.

The garden owners are earning money every day. Sunflower has been cultivated in the area of Jamuna river in Daripara village of Kamalpur union of the upazila. Walking through the river Jamuna can get caught up in anyone's eyes. Suddenly it will look like a flower bed in the field. It is like a yellow sun in the green field. Thousands of sunflower flowers are erupting in the face of the sun.

According to Sariakandi Upazila Agriculture Office, this year, sunflower cultivation has been cultivated on 5 hectares of land in the upazila. About 3-5 seeds are available from the sunflower land. The farmer makes his desired yield home within 3 to 125 days of sunflower cultivation.

Siam Mia, a visitor, said, "I have entered this sunflower flower garden by cutting a ticket of Tk 20. I saw a lot of sunflower flower garden on TV. But never had real experience. It was known that the sunflower flowers were always facing the east during the day, but I never saw myself. Green Mia of Dhunat Upazila said, 'I have come to turn around with my wife and children. Looks great I have never come to the sunflower flower garden before. The sunflower flower garden was not known before. '

Garden entrepreneur Sourav Mahmud said, “I am a traveler. Walk to different places of the country. I did this garden to entertain people. Although everyone has a sunflower garden for oil production, we have cultivated as an entertainment center. It is spending extra money to protect the beauty of our garden. He added, "Every day in our garden, one to one and a half hundred visitors come around. Hopefully from the day of Eid it will be frightened. If anyone does not have the money to enter the garden, it is allowed to enter for free. We have cultivated in a few steps. I can extract edible oil from sunflower seeds. This will also reduce the demand for edible oil in the market.

Sariakandi Upazila Agriculture Officer Mohammad Ali Jinnah said that sunflower consumer oil is healthy and nutritious. Sunflower oil is unique in the body's weakness, performance, and the role is unique because of the high amounts of cholesterol -free. Incentives have been provided for sunflower cultivation on the slopes of the river Jamuna. Demand is high in this oil market.