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Saplings traders from AP reap rich dividends

Staff Reporter

– Photo: Lingaraj Panda

For green cover: Plant lovers purchasing saplings from a vendornear MKCG Medical College in Berhampur on Friday.

BERHAMPUR: With the advent of monsoons traders of plant saplings from adjoining Andhra Pradesh have started arriving in the city with their stock.

They hope to have a good profit by selling saplings of fruit-bearing trees to the rural populace from south Orissa, who visit this major trading centre.

For the city dwellers they have their stock of decorative plants and flowering plants of different variety.

A trader of saplings, G.Laxman Rao from Kadiyam village near Rajmundhry in Andhra Pradesh, said during recent years sale of fruit-bearing trees had increased in Orissa. This year he finds much interest of customers in coconut and mango saplings.

Even the city dwellers are buying papaya saplings to have a fruit-bearing plant near their home.

Mr Rao relates this trend with the increase in consciousness among the people regarding the green cover.

"The interest in coconut and mango saplings is obvious as there is dearth of these trees in Ganjam district," he said.

It may be noted that Orissa depends on Andhra Pradesh for mangoes.

A large amount of coconuts reach the city every day from Andhra Pardesh as coconut trees are very few in the city and adjoining areas although it is close to sea coast.

Urbanisation has depleted number of coconut trees in the area. Manas Sethi, a farmer from Aska area who was seen to be interested in buying up saplings of some better breed mango saplings said it is high time for farmers to plant mango trees to get some regular income like their counter parts in Andhra Pardesh. In Orissa a large chunk of mango trees are not of premier breed as they were not sown with market in mind.

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