BSS, Rajshahi :
Wide-ranging promotion and expansion of biogas plants has become an urgent need to reduce the use of chemical fertilizer in the farming fields.
“We have enormous prospects of large-scale expansion of biogas plants as most of the village-people are believed to have livestock and vacant places in homesteads,” Dr Ilias Hossain, Senior Scientific Officer of Regional Wheat Research Station (RWRS) said yesterday.
He says use of bio-slurry, main effluent of biogas plant, always improves soil fertility and increase crop productions. “Enhanced use of bio-slurry has enormous contribution towards reducing use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in the farming fields.”
Dr Ilias clarifies that an optimum use of bio-fertilizers always improve soil textures, fertility, increase its water and nutrient storing capacities, upgrade sandy land to sandy-loamy and sandy loamy to loamy and then clay soil in course of time.
Aminul Islam, a seed contract-grower in Bidirpur village under Godagari upazila of the district, said he had set up two plants in an effort to boost seed production through using bio-slurry. “In addition to cooking meals for my eight-member family, I have been running a cow-fattening farm with 26 cattle and seed production project on 45 bighas of land commercially with my two biogas plants simultaneously for the last one and half years,” he mentioned.
He said that he set up a 2.5 diameter plant with his own initiative in 2007 for meeting his domestic fuel demands.
Witnessing the success, he installed another 4.8 diameter plant in 2010 for fulfilling his domestic and commercial demands through using the natural resources especially eco-friendly biogas and slurry.
He said there is no doubt that bio-slurry act as the best resource of organic fertilizer. Aminul Islam said around 80 families set up biogas plants in Godagari upazila of the district particularly Premtali and its adjacent area.
Biogas is not only used as fuel for cooking foods but the slurry is being used as organic fertilizer in the farming fields for boosting its production.
“If the farmers increase productions of green fertilizers in their homesteads and ensure usages, the annual consumption of urea, TSP, MoP and other fertilizers and pesticides would be reduced remarkably,” Dr Israil Hossain, chief scientific officer of RWRS, says while talking to BSS here.
He said expanded production and use of eco-friendly bio-slurry fertilizer help emergence of beneficial insects, birds and fishes and maintain ecology, bio-diversity and environment.
He, however, mentions that the eco-friendly technology isn’t being expanded in the region up to the expected level because of most of the village people are ignorant about its aspects.
“We have special credit programme for promotion of biogas plants in the region. But the clients are reluctant to adopt the technology”, says Abdul Khaleque Khan, General Manager of Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB).
More training, demonstration and field days are needed to make the modern technology popular for rapid dissemination of its uses among the villagers, he opined.
Wide-ranging promotion and expansion of biogas plants has become an urgent need to reduce the use of chemical fertilizer in the farming fields.
“We have enormous prospects of large-scale expansion of biogas plants as most of the village-people are believed to have livestock and vacant places in homesteads,” Dr Ilias Hossain, Senior Scientific Officer of Regional Wheat Research Station (RWRS) said yesterday.
He says use of bio-slurry, main effluent of biogas plant, always improves soil fertility and increase crop productions. “Enhanced use of bio-slurry has enormous contribution towards reducing use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in the farming fields.”
Dr Ilias clarifies that an optimum use of bio-fertilizers always improve soil textures, fertility, increase its water and nutrient storing capacities, upgrade sandy land to sandy-loamy and sandy loamy to loamy and then clay soil in course of time.
Aminul Islam, a seed contract-grower in Bidirpur village under Godagari upazila of the district, said he had set up two plants in an effort to boost seed production through using bio-slurry. “In addition to cooking meals for my eight-member family, I have been running a cow-fattening farm with 26 cattle and seed production project on 45 bighas of land commercially with my two biogas plants simultaneously for the last one and half years,” he mentioned.
He said that he set up a 2.5 diameter plant with his own initiative in 2007 for meeting his domestic fuel demands.
Witnessing the success, he installed another 4.8 diameter plant in 2010 for fulfilling his domestic and commercial demands through using the natural resources especially eco-friendly biogas and slurry.
He said there is no doubt that bio-slurry act as the best resource of organic fertilizer. Aminul Islam said around 80 families set up biogas plants in Godagari upazila of the district particularly Premtali and its adjacent area.
Biogas is not only used as fuel for cooking foods but the slurry is being used as organic fertilizer in the farming fields for boosting its production.
“If the farmers increase productions of green fertilizers in their homesteads and ensure usages, the annual consumption of urea, TSP, MoP and other fertilizers and pesticides would be reduced remarkably,” Dr Israil Hossain, chief scientific officer of RWRS, says while talking to BSS here.
He said expanded production and use of eco-friendly bio-slurry fertilizer help emergence of beneficial insects, birds and fishes and maintain ecology, bio-diversity and environment.
He, however, mentions that the eco-friendly technology isn’t being expanded in the region up to the expected level because of most of the village people are ignorant about its aspects.
“We have special credit programme for promotion of biogas plants in the region. But the clients are reluctant to adopt the technology”, says Abdul Khaleque Khan, General Manager of Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB).
More training, demonstration and field days are needed to make the modern technology popular for rapid dissemination of its uses among the villagers, he opined.
