Bangladesh was initially dependent on orchid imports from Thailand and Malaysia and other countries to meet local demand. But this delicate flower is now being grown in Bangladesh.
Those who started growing orchids in the country are now ready to begin exporting.
Engineer Itemad Ud Daulah, chairman of DIRD group, is a businessman by profession, but he had a green-thumb for gardening. He is the pioneer of orchid cultivation in Bangladesh.
Itemad started growing Orchids in 2002, as a small passion project in a corner of his home in Dulma, a village of Mymensingh, which is 140km away from Dhaka.
Now it has become a large flower garden with 25 acres of land, home to a growing variety of orchid species, along with different flower plants and other shrubs.
His little project now operates under the name Dipta Orchids Ltd.