<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Bonayan, an online & physical retailer of gardening & nursery, has started distributing five million saplings among various stakeholders across the country this year.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The private sector-driven afforestation programme kicked off the sapling distribution for the year on the World Environment Day on Monday.</div><div><br></div><div>Bonayan initiated the campaign in line with the government’s National Tree Plantation Campaign.</div><div><br></div><div>‘Bonayan’ embarks on its 43rd year of legacy this year since its journey from 1980 paving the way to a ‘Greener Tomorrow’.</div><div><br></div><div>The afforestation programme has so far distributed 120 million fruit, forestry, and medicinal saplings free of cost to farmers and stakeholders to restore the ecosystem across different regions of the country.</div><div><br></div><div>These saplings are prepared in more than 18 nurseries across Bangladesh. To further ensure ecological conservation, Bonayan has also established 119 medicinal gardens with the help of farmers.</div><div><br></div><div>Currently, ‘Bonayan’ is operating its projects in 22 districts in Bangladesh, including Dhaka, Mymensingh, Manikganj, Tangail, Rangpur, Rajshahi, Lalmonirhat, Natore, Kushtia, Jhenaidah, Meherpur, Jessore, Chittagong, Bandarban, Khagrachari, Cox's Bazar, Rangamati and Noakhali (Bhasanchar).</div><div><br></div><div>Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner, Rajshahi City Corporation, Border Guard Bangladesh and Bangladesh Agricultural University are a few of the notable institutions that Bonayan is collaboratively working with. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>