Dupchanchia (Bogra) Correspondent :
The farmers and officials concerned are expecting a satisfactory production of mustard following various government steps and favourable climatic conditions in the region in this Rabi season in Dupchanchia upazila of Bogra.
According to the sources concerned, the cash crop is now growing well everywhere in the region including its vast Barind tract predicting bumper productions. Harvesting will begin next month and the farmers will bring most of the same land under Boro farming after completion of harvests of the crop, farmers and officials in the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) said here on Saturday.
The DAE has set a target of bringing around 15 thousand hectares of land in six union of the upazila during the current season but the farmers cultivated the crop on 16 hectares of land. Besides the DAE, various other research and development organizations like BARI, BARC, BADC and many NGOs have taken adequate steps in collaboration with other departments this season.
The agri-departments and NGOs have provided quality seeds, necessary inputs and trainings on the latest technologies to make the programme successful. The landless and marginal farmers have also brought vast tracts of the sandy char lands under mustard cultivation this time in the Ganges basins and the crops are growing excellent everywhere now in the region.
Agriculturist Tahirul Islam said the region has immense prospects to achieve self- reliance in oil seed productions. In this regard, he underscored the need for using the latest agro-technologies and disseminating proper knowledge to the farmers for increasing mustard seed to achieve self- reliance in edible oil to reduce the dependence on import.
The authority concern laid special emphasis on the need for increasing mustard, groundnuts, soybean and palm farming to move further forward in achieving the goals using the latest agro-technologies in the country’s food granary of the northern region. Farmers of the region always produce huge surplus quantities of rice, potato, maize, vegetables and they should explore tremendous potentialities to increase production of oil seeds through proper crop diversification and land management, he added.
