Sylhet Bureau :
BARI bottle gourd-4 cultivation has changed the socio-economic condition of many farmers of the Sylhet division this year.
A large number of farmers involved themselves in high-yielding BARI Bottle Gourd-4 cultivation considering its economic prospect. They cultivate BARI Bottle Gourd-4 on lands and premises of their houses.
Senaior Scientist of BARI Sylhet D. Mahmudul Islam Nuzrul said a total of 300 hectares of land was brought under BARI Bottle Gourd-4s cultivation in six upazilas of the Sylhet divistion. Many farmers have started cultivating BARI bottle gourd-4s on commercial basis.
Abdul Basit, a farmer of Guftorgown under Dakshin Surma upazila is one of the successful BARI Bottle Gourd-4 growers. He cultivated BARI Bottle Gourd-4 on 35 decimals of land. He expects to earn over Taka 40,000 this season. Basit said BARI Bottle Gourd-4 seeds can be sowed at any time round the year.
Harvesting of the vegetable begins after only two months of the sowing seeds. It continues for the next three to four months. Each sweet BARI Bottle Gourd-4 creeper produces over 200 BARI Bottle Gourd-4.
A single family can meet its annual demand of BARI Bottle Gourd-4 by sowing only two BARI Bottle Gourd-4 seeds at his courtyard and on an interval of six months, the farmer told that.
