BSS, Rajshahi :
Aman farmers in Rajshahi were happy after pulling in a good yield coupled with fair price this season, everywhere in the region.
According to reports from different areas in the region, farmers were busy harvesting in the final stages also creating employment opportunities for many needy people.
Currently, a maund (37.33kg) of Aman paddy is being sold for Tk 640 to Tk710 at different markets in the district while the production cost of each maund was Tk 420 to Tk450, farmers said.
During the initial stages of the farming season, farmers were frustrated due to dry conditions. Though some of them, having requisite irrigation facilities started transplanting seedlings with irrigation, all the farmers could do same, thanks to sufficient rainfall later in the season.
Agriculturists said growers sowed high quality Aman seeds like BINA-7, BR-48, 49, 62, 71 and 72 and local early variety Basmati paddy while the DAE officials provided farmers with training and necessary instructions to boost production.
Fazlur Rahman, additional director of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), said the farmers had cultivated aman paddy on around 3.95 lakh hectares of land out of target 3.72 lakh hectares in Rajshahi, Naogaon, Natore and Chapainawabganj districts during the current season.
Farmers got at least 2.93 tonnes of the crop from each hectare this year against the target of 2.66 tonnes fixed by the DAE, he said.
This season the farmers were getting a fair price for their crop, which is now being sold between Taka 700 to Tk 750 per mound, said Zakir Hossain, a farmer of Chowbaria in Paba upazila.
“Good Aman harvest was expected this season everywhere in the region as weather condition remained favourable, prices of fertiliser and other inputs were relatively low while pest attacks did not affect the crop,” he said.
“I have harvested 18 to 20 maunds of HYV of aman crop per bigha of land, as weather flood was almost favourable this year,” said Abdur Rahim, a model farmer from Bargachhi in Paba upazila.
Nabibur Rahman, 43, a farmer from Kachua in Tanore Upazila, said, “I cultivated high yielding flood tolerant Aman paddy on 68 decimal of land this year and got 25-kg of paddy from each decimal. It was only 18- kg last year.”
“I received seed and technical support from the regional office of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute to cultivate the variety. I will cultivate it on more land next season,” he said.
Aman farmers in Rajshahi were happy after pulling in a good yield coupled with fair price this season, everywhere in the region.
According to reports from different areas in the region, farmers were busy harvesting in the final stages also creating employment opportunities for many needy people.
Currently, a maund (37.33kg) of Aman paddy is being sold for Tk 640 to Tk710 at different markets in the district while the production cost of each maund was Tk 420 to Tk450, farmers said.
During the initial stages of the farming season, farmers were frustrated due to dry conditions. Though some of them, having requisite irrigation facilities started transplanting seedlings with irrigation, all the farmers could do same, thanks to sufficient rainfall later in the season.
Agriculturists said growers sowed high quality Aman seeds like BINA-7, BR-48, 49, 62, 71 and 72 and local early variety Basmati paddy while the DAE officials provided farmers with training and necessary instructions to boost production.
Fazlur Rahman, additional director of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), said the farmers had cultivated aman paddy on around 3.95 lakh hectares of land out of target 3.72 lakh hectares in Rajshahi, Naogaon, Natore and Chapainawabganj districts during the current season.
Farmers got at least 2.93 tonnes of the crop from each hectare this year against the target of 2.66 tonnes fixed by the DAE, he said.
This season the farmers were getting a fair price for their crop, which is now being sold between Taka 700 to Tk 750 per mound, said Zakir Hossain, a farmer of Chowbaria in Paba upazila.
“Good Aman harvest was expected this season everywhere in the region as weather condition remained favourable, prices of fertiliser and other inputs were relatively low while pest attacks did not affect the crop,” he said.
“I have harvested 18 to 20 maunds of HYV of aman crop per bigha of land, as weather flood was almost favourable this year,” said Abdur Rahim, a model farmer from Bargachhi in Paba upazila.
Nabibur Rahman, 43, a farmer from Kachua in Tanore Upazila, said, “I cultivated high yielding flood tolerant Aman paddy on 68 decimal of land this year and got 25-kg of paddy from each decimal. It was only 18- kg last year.”
“I received seed and technical support from the regional office of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute to cultivate the variety. I will cultivate it on more land next season,” he said.
