BSS, Rangpur :
Enhanced production of compost fertilisers can bring fortune to the small and marginal farmers and distressed women through alleviating poverty side by side increasing crop production and improving soil fertility.
Speakers said this at the concluding ceremony of a 10-day training course on compost fertilisers organised by Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB) at Upazila Agriculture Office auditorium in Bhurungamari upazila of Kurigram on Friday afternoon.
The training course was arranged from November 30 to December 11 last under the Initiative for Development and Livelihood (IDL) Project of BRDB for 25 male and female project beneficiaries of different villages under Bhurungamari upazila.
Bhurungamari Upazila Nirbahi Officer AZM Ershad Ahsan Habib attended the ceremony as the chief guest with Bhurungamari Upazila Rural Development Officer Nurul Islam in the chair.
Upazila Agriculture Officer of Bhurungamari Mohammad Samsuzzaman and Assistant Upazila Rural Development Officer Anisur Rahman attended the ceremony as the special guests.
Officials and experts of the Department of Agriculture Extension and BRDB conducted the training course to provide practical knowledge to the participants on preparation, preservation, marketing and proper application of compost fertilisers.
The speakers said compost fertilisers have huge demand and farmers purchase those for applying in crop fields to get increased crop production side by side reviving soil health and fertility by adding necessary soil nutrients.
They said the participants could utilise the knowledge they acquired from the training course to produce quality composts using cow dung, wood dust, oil cake, water hyacinths, organic manure, various wastage, leaves and waste materials.
The small and marginal farmers, poor, distressed and landless people including women could earn profits and alleviate poverty through producing compost fertilisers in their fallow homesteads and selling those to the farmers throughout the year.
They said compost fertilisers substantially improve soil textures, fertility, increase water and nutrient storing capacities, upgrade sandy land into sandy-loamy and sandy loamy into loamy and then into clay soil in course of time.
The chief guest said adequate use of compost fertilisers helps regaining lost population of extinct insecticides, earthworms, birds, fishes and maintain ecology, bio-diversity and environment also ensuring food security through increasing crop production.
Enhanced production of compost fertilisers can bring fortune to the small and marginal farmers and distressed women through alleviating poverty side by side increasing crop production and improving soil fertility.
Speakers said this at the concluding ceremony of a 10-day training course on compost fertilisers organised by Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB) at Upazila Agriculture Office auditorium in Bhurungamari upazila of Kurigram on Friday afternoon.
The training course was arranged from November 30 to December 11 last under the Initiative for Development and Livelihood (IDL) Project of BRDB for 25 male and female project beneficiaries of different villages under Bhurungamari upazila.
Bhurungamari Upazila Nirbahi Officer AZM Ershad Ahsan Habib attended the ceremony as the chief guest with Bhurungamari Upazila Rural Development Officer Nurul Islam in the chair.
Upazila Agriculture Officer of Bhurungamari Mohammad Samsuzzaman and Assistant Upazila Rural Development Officer Anisur Rahman attended the ceremony as the special guests.
Officials and experts of the Department of Agriculture Extension and BRDB conducted the training course to provide practical knowledge to the participants on preparation, preservation, marketing and proper application of compost fertilisers.
The speakers said compost fertilisers have huge demand and farmers purchase those for applying in crop fields to get increased crop production side by side reviving soil health and fertility by adding necessary soil nutrients.
They said the participants could utilise the knowledge they acquired from the training course to produce quality composts using cow dung, wood dust, oil cake, water hyacinths, organic manure, various wastage, leaves and waste materials.
The small and marginal farmers, poor, distressed and landless people including women could earn profits and alleviate poverty through producing compost fertilisers in their fallow homesteads and selling those to the farmers throughout the year.
They said compost fertilisers substantially improve soil textures, fertility, increase water and nutrient storing capacities, upgrade sandy land into sandy-loamy and sandy loamy into loamy and then into clay soil in course of time.
The chief guest said adequate use of compost fertilisers helps regaining lost population of extinct insecticides, earthworms, birds, fishes and maintain ecology, bio-diversity and environment also ensuring food security through increasing crop production.
