City Desk :
Fisheries experts have called upon the farmers for increasing fish production in rice fields and tiny water bodies to meet nutritional demand and achieve economic self- reliance. They were addressing a farmers’ field day cum distribution ceremony of Mono-sex Tilapia fingerling among 23 members of Chakla Livelihood Farmers’ Field School (LFS) at Alampur union parishad hall room under Taraganj upazila yesterday. Taraganj Upazila Fisheries Department organised the event under Integrated Agriculture Productivity Project of the Ministry of Agriculture to assist rural fish farmers, small and marginal farmers and local fishermen in enhancing fish production.
District Fisheries Officer Dr Zillur Rahman attended the occasion as the chief guest with Chairman of Alampur union parishad Abdul Mannan in the chair. Taraganj Upazila Fisheries Officer Deepa Rani Biswas, Assistant Upazila Fisheries Officer Habibur Rahman Chowdhury and Field Assistants Harun-Ar-Rashid and Mohammad Rokanuzzaman addressed the occasion, among others.
Small and marginal farmers, fishermen, men, women, youths, members of the local union parishad, socio-cultural activists, government and NGO officials and elite were present.
Upazila Fisheries Officer Deepa Rani Biswas said there is huge prospect of producing additional fish to earn better profits through enhancing pisciculture in tiny water bodies and ponds at rural community levels in Taraganj upazila.
The chief guest called for inspiring farmers, providing them with the latest technologies and educating them in releasing quality fingerlings of Mono-sex Tilapia in their farmlands or other tiny places to get better production in shorter period.
“Through bringing tiny ponds, water bodies and flood plains under pisciculture using the latest technologies, the rural people can earn profits, tackle poverty, meet nutritional demand and achieve economic self-reliance,” he added.
Fisheries experts have called upon the farmers for increasing fish production in rice fields and tiny water bodies to meet nutritional demand and achieve economic self- reliance. They were addressing a farmers’ field day cum distribution ceremony of Mono-sex Tilapia fingerling among 23 members of Chakla Livelihood Farmers’ Field School (LFS) at Alampur union parishad hall room under Taraganj upazila yesterday. Taraganj Upazila Fisheries Department organised the event under Integrated Agriculture Productivity Project of the Ministry of Agriculture to assist rural fish farmers, small and marginal farmers and local fishermen in enhancing fish production.
District Fisheries Officer Dr Zillur Rahman attended the occasion as the chief guest with Chairman of Alampur union parishad Abdul Mannan in the chair. Taraganj Upazila Fisheries Officer Deepa Rani Biswas, Assistant Upazila Fisheries Officer Habibur Rahman Chowdhury and Field Assistants Harun-Ar-Rashid and Mohammad Rokanuzzaman addressed the occasion, among others.
Small and marginal farmers, fishermen, men, women, youths, members of the local union parishad, socio-cultural activists, government and NGO officials and elite were present.
Upazila Fisheries Officer Deepa Rani Biswas said there is huge prospect of producing additional fish to earn better profits through enhancing pisciculture in tiny water bodies and ponds at rural community levels in Taraganj upazila.
The chief guest called for inspiring farmers, providing them with the latest technologies and educating them in releasing quality fingerlings of Mono-sex Tilapia in their farmlands or other tiny places to get better production in shorter period.
“Through bringing tiny ponds, water bodies and flood plains under pisciculture using the latest technologies, the rural people can earn profits, tackle poverty, meet nutritional demand and achieve economic self-reliance,” he added.
