BSS, Rajshahi :
Agricultural extension and research officials in a workshop here yesterday unequivocally called for promotion of growers level farm mechanization to boost crop outputs to feed the gradually increasing population.
They revealed that the cropping intensity can be increased to 250 percent even 400 percent from the existing 200 percent through reducing the existing time gap between the two crops after the best uses of the farm mechanization.
To this end, all the officials and others concerned including the scientists and farmers should put in their level best efforts and work together as the present government is very much positive towards the field.
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) under its ‘Boosting Crop Production through Farm Mechanization Project’ organized the regional workshop- 2016 at BGB Party Point in Rajshahi city.
More than 120 district and upazila level officials from DAE, BMDA, BARI, BIRRI, SRDI, BADC and machine entrepreneurs and manufacturers and service providers from different districts in the region attended the workshop.
Director (On Farm wing) of DAE Choitonya Kumar Das and Project Director Sheikh Nazim Uddin addressed the workshop as chief and special guests respectively with Fazlur Rahman, Additional Director of DAE, in the chair.
In his welcome speech, Joynal Abedeen, Deputy Director of DAE, narrated the aims and objectives of the workshop and sought well-thought-outs from the participants on how to promote farm mechanization successfully. Choitonya Kumar Das told the meeting that mechanization is an important tool for profitable and competitive agriculture. The need for mechanization is increasing fast with the decrease of draft power.
Without mechanization it will not be possible to maintain multiple cropping patterns, which need quick land preparation, planting, weeding, harvesting, processing.
Presently, the government has given emphasis on farm mechanization and is funding for rapid agricultural mechanization. This has mitigated, partly, the financial crisis for design and development of agricultural machinery.
The farmers and rural entrepreneurs are trying to further mechanize some of these operations to reduce cost of production and time of operation
Both researchers and manufacturers need appropriate and adequate trainings on improved farm mechanization and associated machines so that they can design and develop better machinery.
Agriculturist Choitonya Das said highly coordinated research and extension among GO, NGO and private agricultural machinery manufacturers are required to support this process of mechanization and for better understanding of the impact process on the livelihood of the rural poor such as marginal farmers, agricultural labourers and rural artisans.
Agricultural extension and research officials in a workshop here yesterday unequivocally called for promotion of growers level farm mechanization to boost crop outputs to feed the gradually increasing population.
They revealed that the cropping intensity can be increased to 250 percent even 400 percent from the existing 200 percent through reducing the existing time gap between the two crops after the best uses of the farm mechanization.
To this end, all the officials and others concerned including the scientists and farmers should put in their level best efforts and work together as the present government is very much positive towards the field.
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) under its ‘Boosting Crop Production through Farm Mechanization Project’ organized the regional workshop- 2016 at BGB Party Point in Rajshahi city.
More than 120 district and upazila level officials from DAE, BMDA, BARI, BIRRI, SRDI, BADC and machine entrepreneurs and manufacturers and service providers from different districts in the region attended the workshop.
Director (On Farm wing) of DAE Choitonya Kumar Das and Project Director Sheikh Nazim Uddin addressed the workshop as chief and special guests respectively with Fazlur Rahman, Additional Director of DAE, in the chair.
In his welcome speech, Joynal Abedeen, Deputy Director of DAE, narrated the aims and objectives of the workshop and sought well-thought-outs from the participants on how to promote farm mechanization successfully. Choitonya Kumar Das told the meeting that mechanization is an important tool for profitable and competitive agriculture. The need for mechanization is increasing fast with the decrease of draft power.
Without mechanization it will not be possible to maintain multiple cropping patterns, which need quick land preparation, planting, weeding, harvesting, processing.
Presently, the government has given emphasis on farm mechanization and is funding for rapid agricultural mechanization. This has mitigated, partly, the financial crisis for design and development of agricultural machinery.
The farmers and rural entrepreneurs are trying to further mechanize some of these operations to reduce cost of production and time of operation
Both researchers and manufacturers need appropriate and adequate trainings on improved farm mechanization and associated machines so that they can design and develop better machinery.
Agriculturist Choitonya Das said highly coordinated research and extension among GO, NGO and private agricultural machinery manufacturers are required to support this process of mechanization and for better understanding of the impact process on the livelihood of the rural poor such as marginal farmers, agricultural labourers and rural artisans.
