STUDY ON THE FOREST NURSERY OF DINAJPUR DISTRICT: PRESENT STATUS AND FUTURE IMPROVEMENT

Abstract

A survey was conducted in Dinajpur district covering 30 nurseries to observe the present status of nurseries and nursery owners recommended for future improvement of the forest nurseries. The main purpose of the study was to find out quality of nursery owners on nursery business. Data were collected by using interview schedule during June to October 2019. There were two types of factors considered in this study i.e. nursery owner factor of this study were age, education and total income. The nursery factors of this study were nursery size, nursery income, problem of nursery and annual income. Among the nursery owner the age categories were 0-30 year, 31-40 year, 41-50 year and 50 to above. Finding of the study showed that age category 0-30 was found highest (36.33%) among four categorized studied of the respondent nursery owners. In case of education level, most of the nursery owners were secondary level educated (63.33%) and their income level per year was above 8lac of 70% respondent. Study of the nursery size, it was found that medium size of nursery of 21-40 decimal size was in highest categories (46.66) and income from the nursery was low category1-5 lac (53.33%). Average income was 6.67 lac per year. In case of employee number engaged in nursery owners, most of was found in 1-4 (66.67%) category. In case of labour salary, labour got salary in the categories of Tk. 9000 per month. In case of seedling produce per year in nurseries highest (56.67%) was found in the category 41 -60 thousand seedling produce per year. In case of seedling sale per year in nurseries, highest (56.67%) was found in the category. In case of seedling demand there was fruit species demand was high. In case of problems, there were some problems told respondents. Maximum respondents told that inadequate fund and lack of quality plant seed.