BSS, Rangpur :
Ensuring best use of cultivable land adopting the latest technologies with newer cropping patterns would become very effective to enhance crop production to ensure food security amid changing climate.
According to agriculture and environment experts, sustainable food security has become the most important global issue now as the negative impacts of climate change have been posing threat to the agriculture as well as many other sectors.
Renowned rice scientist and former Chief Scientific Officer of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute Dr MA Mazid said every inch of land should be brought under crop farming as the cultivable land area had been continuously shrinking in the country.
“There is no alternative to increase production of food grain through making best use of cultivable land not only for ensuring food security, but also for durable social stability, peace and harmony by adapting to climate change impacts,” he said.
Agronomist Anarul Haque at Dinajpur Hub of International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center stressed on ensuring best use of cultivable land to increase crop yield at reduced costs adopting conservation agriculture (CA)-based technologies.
“The farmers should be trained and educated enough to cope with untimely droughts, floods, lack of rains or heavy rains as those have been adversely affecting the agriculture sector hampering food production almost everywhere in the world,” he said.
Agriculture and Environment Coordinator of RDRS Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid stressed on disseminating modern agriculture technologies among farmers and providing them with necessary facilities and inputs to increase crop production.
“The farmers should adopt innovative crop rotation method in which seed are sowed in minimum, no-till or reduced tillage with some crop residue retention on soil surface to reduce unproductive water loss for increasing food production at reduced costs,” he said.
Talking to BSS, Horticulture Specialist of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Khondoker Md Mesbahul Islam stressed on adopting vegetables-based cropping pattern to enable the farmers in getting maximum profits of their produce.
“A farmer can earn net profit of up to Taka one lakh from only 33 decimals of cultivable land through ensuring its best use adopting proper cropping patterns and using inputs and technologies to produce four crops from the same land annually,” he added.
Regional Additional Director of the DAE Md Shah Alam said that attaining sustainable food security was possible through ensuring optimum use of cultivable land and adopting newer cropping patterns and latest technologies despite changing climate.
He called upon the agriculture scientists and researchers to innovate more stress-tolerant crop varieties suitable for cultivation under adverse situations to keep food production increasing under continuous degrading climatic condition.
Ensuring best use of cultivable land adopting the latest technologies with newer cropping patterns would become very effective to enhance crop production to ensure food security amid changing climate.
According to agriculture and environment experts, sustainable food security has become the most important global issue now as the negative impacts of climate change have been posing threat to the agriculture as well as many other sectors.
Renowned rice scientist and former Chief Scientific Officer of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute Dr MA Mazid said every inch of land should be brought under crop farming as the cultivable land area had been continuously shrinking in the country.
“There is no alternative to increase production of food grain through making best use of cultivable land not only for ensuring food security, but also for durable social stability, peace and harmony by adapting to climate change impacts,” he said.
Agronomist Anarul Haque at Dinajpur Hub of International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center stressed on ensuring best use of cultivable land to increase crop yield at reduced costs adopting conservation agriculture (CA)-based technologies.
“The farmers should be trained and educated enough to cope with untimely droughts, floods, lack of rains or heavy rains as those have been adversely affecting the agriculture sector hampering food production almost everywhere in the world,” he said.
Agriculture and Environment Coordinator of RDRS Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid stressed on disseminating modern agriculture technologies among farmers and providing them with necessary facilities and inputs to increase crop production.
“The farmers should adopt innovative crop rotation method in which seed are sowed in minimum, no-till or reduced tillage with some crop residue retention on soil surface to reduce unproductive water loss for increasing food production at reduced costs,” he said.
Talking to BSS, Horticulture Specialist of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Khondoker Md Mesbahul Islam stressed on adopting vegetables-based cropping pattern to enable the farmers in getting maximum profits of their produce.
“A farmer can earn net profit of up to Taka one lakh from only 33 decimals of cultivable land through ensuring its best use adopting proper cropping patterns and using inputs and technologies to produce four crops from the same land annually,” he added.
Regional Additional Director of the DAE Md Shah Alam said that attaining sustainable food security was possible through ensuring optimum use of cultivable land and adopting newer cropping patterns and latest technologies despite changing climate.
He called upon the agriculture scientists and researchers to innovate more stress-tolerant crop varieties suitable for cultivation under adverse situations to keep food production increasing under continuous degrading climatic condition.
