Until now, the mixed garden has sold products amounting to Tk1,000,000 after an initial investment of Tk400,000. Within a year, Pranjal started planting different medicinal plants and vegetables; and in the beginning of 2017, he planted 20,000 aloe vera and asparagus plants. Pranjal has already sold nearly 4,000 aloe vera plants, produced by the ones he had planted before. In the next 2-3 months, Pranjal is hopeful he will sell 20,000 aloe vera leaves commercially. “I can also sell other vegetables when the season comes.”In a mixed garden, four-to-five local, unemployed, labourers have been working since Pranjal began the initiative.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 10, 2019 17:15 UTC