Bogra youth sets example by selling mushroom products

Lablu serving mushroom- made food items to his customers at his shop at BRTC market in Bogra. PHOTO: STAR

Rubiyat Nurul Hasan Lablu earned a diploma in Hotel Management from an institute in the Republic of South Africa in 2004. On completion of his study, he got an offer to serve at a hotel in Canada. But he preferred self-employment to serving in a foreign country. He came back to his hometown and took training on mushroom cultivation organised by the Agriculture Ministry the same year.

Later, he established a shop of mushroom products at Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) market in the town.

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Now he earns Tk 15,000 per month by pursuing his business, he claimed.

He also claimed himself to be the first mushroom cultivator in the northern region.