Rangpur Correspondent :
Farmers of different char areas in the district are making good profit by growing various winter vegetables on their lands this season.
Sources said the farmers of the char areas in different upazilas including Kawnia and Gangachara of the district have geared up winter vegetable farming during the current season with much enthusiasm and zeal.
Visiting some char areas of Kawnia and Gangachara upazila this correspondent found the farmers busy taking care of their vegetable fields. The farmers are growing cabbage, Chilli, cauliflower, gourd, bean, eggplant, cucumber, tomato, carrot, radish etc. Ajiar Rahman , a farmer of village Char Thakurdas under Kawnia upazila told this correspondent he has cultivated cauliflower on 30 decimals of land this season. He has already earned Tk 22,000 by selling his produce and is optimistic of earning more profit during the remaining part of the season.
Deputy Director of DAE Rangpur, Zulfikar Haidar said, the soil of many char areas of the district is suitable for vegetable cultivation and so the farmers are showing more interest in cultivating winter vegetables on their lands.
DAE is also giving them necessary advices in this regard. This season the farmers are very much happy due to good yield and satisfactory price of their produces, he added.
Experts for more aromatic rice cultivation
BSS from Rangpur adds: Expanded cultivation of the highly environment-adaptive indigenous aromatic rice varieties could save those from extinction and bring more profits to the farmers than other rice varieties.
Agriculture experts expressed the opinion at a result-sharing workshop styled ‘Yield Performance of Five Local Aromatic Rice Cultivars’ organised by RDRS Bangladesh, a reputed NGO, at its Training Centre here on Wednesday.
The NGO organised an aroma test followed by the workshop to disclose cultivation results of five selected indigenous aromatic rice varieties of ‘Kalijira’, ‘Kataribhog’, ‘Jirakatari’, ‘Chinigura’ and ‘Ijon’ at its Mathona Farm here.
Rangpur Regional Acting Additional Director of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) SM Ashraf Ali attended the workshop as the chief guest with Head of Rangpur Regional Station of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute and its Principal Scientific Officer Dr Shahidul Islam in chair.
Principal Scientific Officer of the On-farm Research Division at Rangpur Regional Station of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute Dr Mazharul Anwar, former Deputy Director of the DAE Ali Azam, Betar Farm Broadcasting Officer of Rangpur Regional Agriculture Information Service Abu Sayem, Head of Micro-finance Programme of RDRS Bangladesh Humayun Khaled and its Head of Human Resources Sabrina Shamshad addressed as the special guests.
Agriculture and Environment Coordinator of RDRS Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid delivered keynote presentation on the research work titled “Yield Performance of Five Local Aromatic Rice Cultivars”.
He said the filed level experimental cultivation of the selected aromatic rice varieties was conducted adopting scientific ways at Manthona Farm during the just ended Aman season from July to December in 2015.
Farmers of different char areas in the district are making good profit by growing various winter vegetables on their lands this season.
Sources said the farmers of the char areas in different upazilas including Kawnia and Gangachara of the district have geared up winter vegetable farming during the current season with much enthusiasm and zeal.
Visiting some char areas of Kawnia and Gangachara upazila this correspondent found the farmers busy taking care of their vegetable fields. The farmers are growing cabbage, Chilli, cauliflower, gourd, bean, eggplant, cucumber, tomato, carrot, radish etc. Ajiar Rahman , a farmer of village Char Thakurdas under Kawnia upazila told this correspondent he has cultivated cauliflower on 30 decimals of land this season. He has already earned Tk 22,000 by selling his produce and is optimistic of earning more profit during the remaining part of the season.
Deputy Director of DAE Rangpur, Zulfikar Haidar said, the soil of many char areas of the district is suitable for vegetable cultivation and so the farmers are showing more interest in cultivating winter vegetables on their lands.
DAE is also giving them necessary advices in this regard. This season the farmers are very much happy due to good yield and satisfactory price of their produces, he added.
Experts for more aromatic rice cultivation
BSS from Rangpur adds: Expanded cultivation of the highly environment-adaptive indigenous aromatic rice varieties could save those from extinction and bring more profits to the farmers than other rice varieties.
Agriculture experts expressed the opinion at a result-sharing workshop styled ‘Yield Performance of Five Local Aromatic Rice Cultivars’ organised by RDRS Bangladesh, a reputed NGO, at its Training Centre here on Wednesday.
The NGO organised an aroma test followed by the workshop to disclose cultivation results of five selected indigenous aromatic rice varieties of ‘Kalijira’, ‘Kataribhog’, ‘Jirakatari’, ‘Chinigura’ and ‘Ijon’ at its Mathona Farm here.
Rangpur Regional Acting Additional Director of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) SM Ashraf Ali attended the workshop as the chief guest with Head of Rangpur Regional Station of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute and its Principal Scientific Officer Dr Shahidul Islam in chair.
Principal Scientific Officer of the On-farm Research Division at Rangpur Regional Station of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute Dr Mazharul Anwar, former Deputy Director of the DAE Ali Azam, Betar Farm Broadcasting Officer of Rangpur Regional Agriculture Information Service Abu Sayem, Head of Micro-finance Programme of RDRS Bangladesh Humayun Khaled and its Head of Human Resources Sabrina Shamshad addressed as the special guests.
Agriculture and Environment Coordinator of RDRS Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid delivered keynote presentation on the research work titled “Yield Performance of Five Local Aromatic Rice Cultivars”.
He said the filed level experimental cultivation of the selected aromatic rice varieties was conducted adopting scientific ways at Manthona Farm during the just ended Aman season from July to December in 2015.
