A STUDY OF NATIONAL TREE FAIR: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPLICATION

Abstract

The present study was conducted in national tree fair/2016, Agargoan, Dhaka during 1 st August, 2016 to 3 rd September, 2016 to document the socioeconomic characteristics of nursery owners presented in national tree fair, to determine the species composition and cost effectiveness of plant/ tree species as well as to find out problems faced by nursery owners and suggest policy guidelines to overcome. A total of 45 nurseries owners among them five from government nurseries and forty from private/ NGO nurseries were selected for the study. The study revealed that 24.44% had higher secondary level of education and 57.78% respondents were young group that’s express remarkable young entrepreneurship in nursery business. Majority of the respondents (57.78%)) had medium family size (5-6) with an average family size of 5.82. Nursery was the primary occupation for more than half of the respondents (55.56%). This business has vast potentials of generating employment and income of the owners. The net return for fruits, flower, ornamental, timber, medicinal & exotic species were TK 78,82,818.00, TK 72,02,639.00, TK 2,11,63,124.00, TK 32,66,102.00, TK 33,68,310.00 & TK 2,35,670.00 respectively. Total sale vales of national tree fair/2016 was TK 4,31,18,663.00 whereas 18% of total sale comes from fruit species, 17% from flower species, 49% from ornamental species, 8% from timber species, 8% from medicinal species and 1% from exotic species. Benefit cost ratio was calculated at 2.98 of the nursery owners in national tree fair/2016 that is higher than 1. Transportation problems and excess TAX was the crucial problems of national tree fair. There was a huge attention of visitors in national tree fair in interior decoration (73.08%) and roof top gardening (57.95 %).