M.A. Awal, Narisngdi :
The farmers of Narisngdi district have cultivated jute in 20 percent more land then the previous year.
Farmers of the district during the last couple years have lost their interest on jute cultivation as they did not get fair price giving hard labor and invest a lot of capital to grow jute.
During the last two and three years farmers are getting fair price of jute. They are now inspired to cultivate more jute (The golden fiber of Bangladesh).
Deputy Director of Agriculture Extension Department, Narsingdi Muksad Ali told The New Nation that some 6176 hectares of land have been brought under jute cultivation in six upazilas of the district in the current season, but last year (2013) 5100 hectares of land and in 2012 year 4800 hectares .
He said if the favorable climate condition is prevailed about 61372 bales of jute will be produce in the district this year.
The jute fields are now in deep greener eye-catching look egger where as the plant of golden fibre are growing excellent and enthusiastic farmers have engaged all out effort in making jute farming programmer successful.
The Government has given the maximum priority to an increased jute production as to establish back the glory of the golden fibre of Bangladesh.
Farmers Abul Hai of Sadar upazila, Abdur Rahman of Belabo upazila, Iqabal Hossain of Raipura upazila, Jahid Miah of Shibpur upazila and Idrish Miah of Monohardi upazila said that they have cultivated more land this year than the previous years as they got fair price by selling jute this year.
They said the prevailing climatic condition would help bumper production of jute this year. They thanked Government for reducing price of fertilizer and for providing them agri-inputs support.
