LankaBangla Foundation organised a tree plantation programme at Sheikh Hasina Software Technology Park in Jashore Thursday. With the theme "Let's plant trees to build Bangabandhu's dream country," Khwaja Shahriar, managing director of LankaBangla Finance, and Major Mohammad Moslem Uddin Sikder, general manager of Techcity Bangladesh, inaugurated the programme by planting saplings. As part of this programme, about 2,000 saplings of fruit and wood trees will be planted at Sheikh Hasina Park. Read: LankaBangla introduces unique deposit schemes To increase the country's forest resources and maintain its ecological balance, along with encouraging everyone to plant trees voluntarily, LankaBangla Foundation organised this tree plantation programme. Taking land erosion problem, fruit production, long-term conservation of environment and biodiversity into account, LankaBangla Foundation has been carrying out various tree plantation programmes around the country as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, according to a media statement. 

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