From seedlings in the yard to five nurseries over 30 bighas

This woman from Malipara village in Sripur, Gazipur, began by raising papaya, brinjal and chilli seedlings from seed in her own yard and selling them in small quantities. After four or five years of that she set up a nursery on a small plot beside the house, around 1995. That single plot has become five nurseries over roughly 30 bighas, about six bighas each, run together with her husband, and around 30 workers are employed at them. Her nurseries sit in a cluster of 20 to 25 along a five-kilometre stretch of the Rajendrapur-Kishoreganj road, where 300 to 400 people work for daily wages of 300 to 400 taka. What the business cost to start, and what it earns now, the report does not say.