Gafargaon (Mymensingh) Correspondent :
The farmers are expecting satisfactory production of mustard following various government steps and favourable claimatic condition in the area in this Rabi season in Gafargaon Upazila and Hossainpur upazila under Mymensingh and Kishoregonj districts.
According to the sources concerned, the cash crop is now growing well everywhere in the region 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, recently.
The DAE has set a target of bringing around 12 thousand hectares of land in five union of this upazila and three union of Hossainpur Upazila during the current season. But the farmers cultivated 20 hectares of land. Besides the DAE, various organizations like BARI, BARC, BADC and NGO’s have taken adequate steps in collaboration with other departments this season.
The agri-departments and NGO’s have provided quality seeds, necessary inputs and trainings on the latest technologies to make much profit.The landless and marginal farmers have also brought vast tracts of the sandy char lands under mustard cultivation this time in the Brahmaputra basins and the crops are growing bumper everywhere now in this char area.
Agriculture field supervizer Golam Mostofa said, the area has immense prospects to make self-reliance in oil seed production.He made the people understand the need for using the latest agro-technologies and giving proper knowledge to the farmers for increasing mustard seed to make them self-reliant in edible oil to reduce the dependence on import.
The authority concern laid special emphasis on the need for increasing mustard, groundnuts , soybean to move forward in achieving the goals using the latest agro-technologies in this region.It also improves in the country’s food granary. Farmers of the area produce huge surplus qualities of rice, potato, maize, vegetables.
They should explore tremendous potentialities to increase production of oil seeds through proper crop diversification and land management.
