Dupchanchia (Bogra) Correspondent :
The farmers are passing busy time to cultivate the early winter vegetables abundantly across in twelve upazilas of Bogra district. This job is proved to them more lucrative within very short time and cheap costing.
Department of Agriculture Extension source said, around 20,000 hectares of land in all twelve upazilas of the district have brought under early winter vegetable cultivation for getting repeated profit from the cropland by using eco-friendly Pheromone trap. Eco-friendly Pheromone trap is gaining popularity among the farmers of different upazilas in Bogra district in recent years, source added.
Concern authority source said, a large number of farmers of the area are producing huge amount of vegetables using eco-friendly pheromone trap instead of harmful pesticides. Different varieties of toxic-free vegetable including egg-plant, pointed-gourd, bitter-gourd, snake-gourd and jhinga are being grown in several villages of the district using the trap, source said.
While visiting, the correspondent found that the farmers of the district are passing busy time to grow early winter vegetable sweating in the sunny heat for achieving a bumper production of the crop. The farmers have already started preparing the land to cultivate more profitable vegetable, like, cauliflower, cabbage, radish, brinjal, spinach, lady’s finger, bean, tomato and lalshak and others species in cropland with the help of local agricultural offices.
Farmers said, the vegetable growers have to spend a large amount of money on insecticides on their vegetable fields but Pheromone trap is a chemical capsule. It is kept in a plastic bottle half-filled with water. The female sex hormone insects that attract the male who get drowned into the water kept in the bottle of the pheromone trap.
The farmers are passing busy time to cultivate the early winter vegetables abundantly across in twelve upazilas of Bogra district. This job is proved to them more lucrative within very short time and cheap costing.
Department of Agriculture Extension source said, around 20,000 hectares of land in all twelve upazilas of the district have brought under early winter vegetable cultivation for getting repeated profit from the cropland by using eco-friendly Pheromone trap. Eco-friendly Pheromone trap is gaining popularity among the farmers of different upazilas in Bogra district in recent years, source added.
Concern authority source said, a large number of farmers of the area are producing huge amount of vegetables using eco-friendly pheromone trap instead of harmful pesticides. Different varieties of toxic-free vegetable including egg-plant, pointed-gourd, bitter-gourd, snake-gourd and jhinga are being grown in several villages of the district using the trap, source said.
While visiting, the correspondent found that the farmers of the district are passing busy time to grow early winter vegetable sweating in the sunny heat for achieving a bumper production of the crop. The farmers have already started preparing the land to cultivate more profitable vegetable, like, cauliflower, cabbage, radish, brinjal, spinach, lady’s finger, bean, tomato and lalshak and others species in cropland with the help of local agricultural offices.
Farmers said, the vegetable growers have to spend a large amount of money on insecticides on their vegetable fields but Pheromone trap is a chemical capsule. It is kept in a plastic bottle half-filled with water. The female sex hormone insects that attract the male who get drowned into the water kept in the bottle of the pheromone trap.
