BSS, Gaibandha :
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has taken an extensive plan to cultivate winter vegetables in all the seven upazilas in the district during the current season.
DAE office sources said at least 6,500 hectares of land would be brought under the cultivation programme this year with the production target of 12,830 tonnes of vegetables.
The vegetables include brinjal, radish, tomato, cauliflower, cabbage, bean, carrot, balsam apple, cucumber, ladies finger, turnip, parble, lal shak, sabuj shak and palang sak.
The farmers are showing their interest in farming vegetables this year as they have got economical benefit in previous years.
In some of the places, the farmers have already started to cultivate vegetables on their land with the hopes of getting much profit from the farming.
M. Amir Ali, a farmer of Putimari village under Muktinagar union of Saghata upazila, said he has started the vegetables farming on his land this season and is putting his best efforts to succeed in the cultivation to earn money side by side with meeting his family demand.
To raise vegetables production and to make the cultivation a grand success, the DAE officials are also conducting training in field level to the farmers and providing latest agro technologies to them.
Meanwhile, early varieties of vegetables like cabbage, cauliflower, bean, radish and brinjal have started to come in the market and the customers are buying those with much enthusiasm at reasonable price.
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has taken an extensive plan to cultivate winter vegetables in all the seven upazilas in the district during the current season.
DAE office sources said at least 6,500 hectares of land would be brought under the cultivation programme this year with the production target of 12,830 tonnes of vegetables.
The vegetables include brinjal, radish, tomato, cauliflower, cabbage, bean, carrot, balsam apple, cucumber, ladies finger, turnip, parble, lal shak, sabuj shak and palang sak.
The farmers are showing their interest in farming vegetables this year as they have got economical benefit in previous years.
In some of the places, the farmers have already started to cultivate vegetables on their land with the hopes of getting much profit from the farming.
M. Amir Ali, a farmer of Putimari village under Muktinagar union of Saghata upazila, said he has started the vegetables farming on his land this season and is putting his best efforts to succeed in the cultivation to earn money side by side with meeting his family demand.
To raise vegetables production and to make the cultivation a grand success, the DAE officials are also conducting training in field level to the farmers and providing latest agro technologies to them.
Meanwhile, early varieties of vegetables like cabbage, cauliflower, bean, radish and brinjal have started to come in the market and the customers are buying those with much enthusiasm at reasonable price.
