NARSINGDI, Feb 23, 2022 (BSS)- The bamboo and cane-made handicrafts have
become popular again among the common people to flourish the sector and bring
fortune for hundreds of the unemployed rural people of the district.

  Once, Narsingdi was a rich heritage of traditional handicrafts. A good
number of skilled craftsmen, inherited from their forefathers, in the
district have given a special dimension to their products.

   Currently, the demand of bamboo and cane-made handicrafts have dropped due
to its available design and flourishing of attractive designed plastic
products in the local markets. But recently, it is reviving its popularity
among the common people.

   Considering harmful impacts of using synthetic goods and the interest of
common people, some private-sector entrepreneurs are starting to produce the
demandable and popularizing items of bamboo and cane-made handicrafts.

  Craftsmen, mainly living in the village, producing various handicrafts by
using bamboo and cane are becoming self-reliant day by day by adopting the
profession.

  A number of unemployed young girls, distressed women, widow and divorcees
have also engaged themselves with the profession and proved handicrafts as a
very effective profession in combating poverty and achieving economic well-
being in the rural areas.

  Entrepreneurs Safaly, 40, and her 18-year-old daughter Parul Begum of
Patoli union of Belabo upazila has set an example in reviving the lost
aristocracy of producing various bamboo and cane made charming handicrafts
including beds, fruits trays, baskets ,phuldani, mora, ashtray and flute.

   Like Safaly, house wife Habiba, Fetama Bina Rani, widow khohinur, Rajia,
Sofia and Young girl Hosna and Minoti Das of Shibpur upazila narrated their
stories to the BSS correspondent of achieving self-reliance by producing
handicrafts in the recent period.