Economic Reporter :
Shortage of skilled labour is causing crop damage significantly during harvesting seasons.
The problem becomes very severe at the time of peak rice harvesting season leading the farmers to suffer huge financial losses. About 40 per cent of labor shortage is reported during the peak harvesting season resulting to the crop damage. As a result, farmers are not getting fair prices of their produces than the cost of production. ACI Motors has come up with a solution of this problem with ACI Mini Combine Harvester, said a press release.
At the initiative of ACI Motors, they organized ACI Mini Combine Harvester Field Day on Saturday at Porabari Bus Stand, Salna, Gazipur.
Project Director of Department of Agriculture Extension Agriculturalist Sheikh Mohammad Nazim Uddin, Deputy Project Director Agriculturast Md. Shofikul Islam Sheikh, Member Director of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council Md. Sultan, Chief Scientific Officer of BRRI Abdur Rahman, Chief Scientific Officer of BARI Md. Aiyub Hossain, Chief Business Officer of ACI Motors Ltd. Subrata Ranjan Das and other prominent persons were present at that program. In this field day the use of ACI Mini Combine Harvester is shown successfully. By using this Harvester labor-saving will be 80 percent, time saving will be 60 percent and cost saving will be 69 percent percen. If government provides subsidy on this Harvester then it will create a huge response among farmers level. Farmers won’t have to worry about the labor crisis. The cost of rice production will be reduced. Farmer will get his fair price for his labor. As a result Bangladesh will be wealthy in agriculture and it will take Digital Bangladesh a step ahead.
Shortage of skilled labour is causing crop damage significantly during harvesting seasons.
The problem becomes very severe at the time of peak rice harvesting season leading the farmers to suffer huge financial losses. About 40 per cent of labor shortage is reported during the peak harvesting season resulting to the crop damage. As a result, farmers are not getting fair prices of their produces than the cost of production. ACI Motors has come up with a solution of this problem with ACI Mini Combine Harvester, said a press release.
At the initiative of ACI Motors, they organized ACI Mini Combine Harvester Field Day on Saturday at Porabari Bus Stand, Salna, Gazipur.
Project Director of Department of Agriculture Extension Agriculturalist Sheikh Mohammad Nazim Uddin, Deputy Project Director Agriculturast Md. Shofikul Islam Sheikh, Member Director of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council Md. Sultan, Chief Scientific Officer of BRRI Abdur Rahman, Chief Scientific Officer of BARI Md. Aiyub Hossain, Chief Business Officer of ACI Motors Ltd. Subrata Ranjan Das and other prominent persons were present at that program. In this field day the use of ACI Mini Combine Harvester is shown successfully. By using this Harvester labor-saving will be 80 percent, time saving will be 60 percent and cost saving will be 69 percent percen. If government provides subsidy on this Harvester then it will create a huge response among farmers level. Farmers won’t have to worry about the labor crisis. The cost of rice production will be reduced. Farmer will get his fair price for his labor. As a result Bangladesh will be wealthy in agriculture and it will take Digital Bangladesh a step ahead.
