BSS, Rangpur :
Experts at a farmers’ filed day have stressed for expanded adoption of Conservation Agriculture (CA)- based technologies for increasing wheat production at reduced cost to ensure food security under adverse climate.
RDRS Bangladesh jointly with Dinajpur Wheat Research Centre (WRC) organised the occasion in village Matia Kura under Birganj upazila of Dinajpur for exhibiting benefits of CA-based technologies and harvesting BARI Gom 26 on Monday afternoon.
The NGO has been disseminating the technologies among farmers and inspiring them for mechanisation of agriculture under its Sustainable & Resilient Farming System Intensification (SRFSI) Project in Dinajpur and Rangpur districts.
The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) has been extending financial assistances and International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) technical cooperation in implementing the project.
Thirty farmers have cultivated BARI Gom 26 variety wheat through directly sowing its seeds adopting the CA-based agriculture technologies and using bed planters and power tiller operated seeder machines with no tillage or single tillage this season.
Birganj Upazila Agriculture Officer Nikhil Chandra Biswas attended the occasion as the chief guest with local Mohanpur union chairman Dinesh Chandra Mohanta in the chair.
Senior Scientific Officer of Dinajpur WRC Akbar Hossain, Project Coordinators of Food for Progress for Bangladesh (FPB) Project of RDRS Bangladesh Sadekul Islam for Rangpur and Tapan Kumar Saha for Dinajpur and President of Mohanpur Union Federation Punoti Murmu, addressed as the special guests.
Senior Agriculture Officer of the SRFSI Project Anup Kumar Ghosh narrated objectives of the project while Agriculture Officer Syeda Nazma Parveen, wheat growers Nirod Chandra, Ahammad Ali and Ali Mansur also spoke.
The farmers narrated as how they got the stem rust resistant variety BARI Gom 26 wheat seeds and sowed those adopting bed planting, strip tillage and reduced tillage methods using two-wheel power tiller operated seeder machines and bed planters.
The experts stressed for priority on helping farmers in getting maximum benefits by reducing production cost and increasing crop intensification through adopting the proven CA-based and resource conservation technologies, machineries and devices.
The chief guest said the technologies will increase wheat yield at reduced cost, save water, fuel, facilitate crop intensification, quality seed and better germination with residual moistures, planting machine prototypes, inputs and remunerative markets.
After harvesting BARI Gom 26 in presence of the officials, experts and 110 male and female farmers of the area, framer Ahammad Ali got 4 tonnes yield rate per hectare of the high yielding variety wheat in his field.
Experts at a farmers’ filed day have stressed for expanded adoption of Conservation Agriculture (CA)- based technologies for increasing wheat production at reduced cost to ensure food security under adverse climate.
RDRS Bangladesh jointly with Dinajpur Wheat Research Centre (WRC) organised the occasion in village Matia Kura under Birganj upazila of Dinajpur for exhibiting benefits of CA-based technologies and harvesting BARI Gom 26 on Monday afternoon.
The NGO has been disseminating the technologies among farmers and inspiring them for mechanisation of agriculture under its Sustainable & Resilient Farming System Intensification (SRFSI) Project in Dinajpur and Rangpur districts.
The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) has been extending financial assistances and International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) technical cooperation in implementing the project.
Thirty farmers have cultivated BARI Gom 26 variety wheat through directly sowing its seeds adopting the CA-based agriculture technologies and using bed planters and power tiller operated seeder machines with no tillage or single tillage this season.
Birganj Upazila Agriculture Officer Nikhil Chandra Biswas attended the occasion as the chief guest with local Mohanpur union chairman Dinesh Chandra Mohanta in the chair.
Senior Scientific Officer of Dinajpur WRC Akbar Hossain, Project Coordinators of Food for Progress for Bangladesh (FPB) Project of RDRS Bangladesh Sadekul Islam for Rangpur and Tapan Kumar Saha for Dinajpur and President of Mohanpur Union Federation Punoti Murmu, addressed as the special guests.
Senior Agriculture Officer of the SRFSI Project Anup Kumar Ghosh narrated objectives of the project while Agriculture Officer Syeda Nazma Parveen, wheat growers Nirod Chandra, Ahammad Ali and Ali Mansur also spoke.
The farmers narrated as how they got the stem rust resistant variety BARI Gom 26 wheat seeds and sowed those adopting bed planting, strip tillage and reduced tillage methods using two-wheel power tiller operated seeder machines and bed planters.
The experts stressed for priority on helping farmers in getting maximum benefits by reducing production cost and increasing crop intensification through adopting the proven CA-based and resource conservation technologies, machineries and devices.
The chief guest said the technologies will increase wheat yield at reduced cost, save water, fuel, facilitate crop intensification, quality seed and better germination with residual moistures, planting machine prototypes, inputs and remunerative markets.
After harvesting BARI Gom 26 in presence of the officials, experts and 110 male and female farmers of the area, framer Ahammad Ali got 4 tonnes yield rate per hectare of the high yielding variety wheat in his field.
