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Download PDF Enthusiastic tree planter Kartik Pramanik, who spent almost 50 years selflessly planting different kinds of trees in a vast area of Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj, was awarded the Channel i Agriculture Award-2007 yesterday.
“I am a poor farmer. I have planted trees beside roads, ponds, canals and even in open fields owned by other people in my upazila. I never plant trees to receive honour or any kind of reward. I do this selflessly,” said sixty-five-year-old Kartik after receiving the award at Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in the capital.
Kartik, a barber and son of late Suren Chandra Pramanik, is a well-known figure at Tarapur in Shibganj upazila as his planting of trees has made the upazila greener.
“My mother, Subhash Bala Dasi, told me that trees have life. When I was a child she said planting trees is an act of piety. I started planting when I was 10 and the first tree I planted is now 55 years old,” he said.
He urged all to come forward and plant trees so that greenery spreads all over Bangladesh.
“I realise that I alone cannot make the whole country greener. You should come forward in planting trees. Everyone should plant at least 10 trees either in their own land or others’ land,” he suggested.
He vowed to continue his efforts in planting trees using the Tk 50,000 he received from Channel i and Tk 1 lakh from Incepta Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
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