About 15000 poor women of Faridpur district have achieved economic self-reliance by gardening of furits and vegetables around their homesteads during the last few years.

Before taking up the gardening, at least half of them were living in abject poverty in their respective villages.

Officials of the Agriculture Extension Department said that the department has been providing all sorts of cooperation with quality seeds, training and other inputs to the poor women to grow fruits and vegetables in the vacant spaces around their houses.

These women are producing papaya, kulboroi, kamranga, dalim, kazi peara, lemon, latkon, bottle gourd, sweet gourd, bean, cucumber, onion, chili and ginger.

Agriulturist Shah Alam told this correspondent that vegetable and fruit farming in homestead have brought about a revolutionary changes in rural economy in the district.

He said use of compost in producing the vegetables and fruits is most praiseworthy aspect is homestead gardening.

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