A trophy

RPPL produced a trophy botanical booklet on Saturday, along with a number of minor finds.

Page 0.

Page 1.

Pages 2 and 3.

Page 4.

Hopefully they will be legible if you click to enlarge. Probably not on a telephone; fine on my laptop.

It seems that the British government took a more sensible line about all this more than 100 years ago in what was then Bengal than it does now here in the UK. Neither Bing nor Google turn up anything relevant on the key 'government farm naogaon bangladesh', but Google, for some reason best known to itself, did turn up reference 5. 

While Bing offered reference 6.

[Somapura Mahavihara, also known as Paharpur Buddhist Vihara is one of the most renowned Buddhist monasteries in the Indian subcontinent. The ancient monastery is located in the Paharpur village of Badalgachhi upazila in the Naogaon district. The construction of this monastery dates back to the 8th century AD, during the reign of the Dharmapala of the Pala Empire]

And the remains of this large monastery. Which makes me wonder if the area was the subject of inter-faith violence at the time of the partition in 1947.

It is quite near the border with the Indian State of West Bengal.

PS: I wonder what they do about language in Bangladesh. If references 2 and 3 are anything to go by, there must be some tension between Bengali and English, although I do not suppose the issue is as troublesome as it is in India next door.

References

Reference 1: Flora of Bandladesh: No.14: Cannabidaceae - Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council - 1980.

Reference 2: https://barc.portal.gov.bd/. In Bengali.

Reference 3: https://barc.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/barc.portal.gov.bd/page/35f14c97_f85d_4641_8a5f_cee2ac2bbc25/2025-06-18-09-23-7f4dd44cac295eda2259ae3f8f4a899d.pdf. BARC annual report for 2023-2024. In English.

Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Agricultural_Research_Council. In English.

Reference 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganja_Society. 'Naogaon Ganja Cultivators' Co-operative Society Limited ... is a co-operative society that was established by the British Raj in 1917. This cooperative society was established for the development of cannabis cultivation and the well-being of growers in Naogaon, British-ruled Bengal'.

Reference 6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naogaon_District.

Reference 7: https://prothomblog.com/naogaon-district/. The source of the monastic image.