BSS, Gaibandha :
Farming of Boro paddy, a high value crop, is progressing fast in the project command areas of Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) in the district during the current season.
Official sources said the BMDA set a target to bring a total of 8,325 hectares of land under Boro cultivation this year with the production target of 49,950 tonnes of paddy providing irrigation facilities to the farmers at low cost.
The farmers of the district are now so much busy to prepare the land and transplant the seedlings raised from the seedbed and nurture the transplanted seedlings in the fields following the suggestions of the field level officials of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) to get desired production.
To ensure the supply irrigation water to the paddy field smoothly, a total of 335 electricity run deep tube wells of the authority were kept fully functional in the command areas of the district.
To check about 40 percent water wastage in the faulty earth drains, to use the lifted water properly and to save 17 percent arable land for drain construction, UPVC pipes were also installed under the ground to supply water from most of the deep tube wells to Boro land, said M. Noor Islam, executive engineer of BMDA.
Abdul Hai, a Boro paddy grower of Barobaldia village under Sadar upazila said, “Generally, the farmers are to pay Tk 1,500 to 2,000 against a bigha of land to purchase irrigation water from the local providers who operate their power or diesel run shallow machines”.
On the contrary, the farmers of BMDA command areas are to pay only TK 900 to 1,000 to the authority on irrigation charge through coupon system to get irrigation water for one bigha of land from the BMDA operated deep tube wells, he also said.
All the farmers of BMDA command areas of seven upazilas in the district expressed their deep satisfaction over the irrigation activities being implemented by the authority since 2005 here.
Talking to BSS, executive engineer of BMDA Qudrat-e-Elahi said over 80 percent Boro farming had already been completed in the command areas of the district.
Farming of Boro paddy, a high value crop, is progressing fast in the project command areas of Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) in the district during the current season.
Official sources said the BMDA set a target to bring a total of 8,325 hectares of land under Boro cultivation this year with the production target of 49,950 tonnes of paddy providing irrigation facilities to the farmers at low cost.
The farmers of the district are now so much busy to prepare the land and transplant the seedlings raised from the seedbed and nurture the transplanted seedlings in the fields following the suggestions of the field level officials of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) to get desired production.
To ensure the supply irrigation water to the paddy field smoothly, a total of 335 electricity run deep tube wells of the authority were kept fully functional in the command areas of the district.
To check about 40 percent water wastage in the faulty earth drains, to use the lifted water properly and to save 17 percent arable land for drain construction, UPVC pipes were also installed under the ground to supply water from most of the deep tube wells to Boro land, said M. Noor Islam, executive engineer of BMDA.
Abdul Hai, a Boro paddy grower of Barobaldia village under Sadar upazila said, “Generally, the farmers are to pay Tk 1,500 to 2,000 against a bigha of land to purchase irrigation water from the local providers who operate their power or diesel run shallow machines”.
On the contrary, the farmers of BMDA command areas are to pay only TK 900 to 1,000 to the authority on irrigation charge through coupon system to get irrigation water for one bigha of land from the BMDA operated deep tube wells, he also said.
All the farmers of BMDA command areas of seven upazilas in the district expressed their deep satisfaction over the irrigation activities being implemented by the authority since 2005 here.
Talking to BSS, executive engineer of BMDA Qudrat-e-Elahi said over 80 percent Boro farming had already been completed in the command areas of the district.
