Kishoreganj farmers busy in cultivating early winter vegetables

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Our correspondent, Kishoreganj :
Vegetable production has seen tremendous grown in the last 10 years in Bangladesh, generating New jobs , increasing income and reducing proverty , Bangladesh is now the world’s third largest vegetables producer after China and India.
Hundreds of farmers in Kishoreganj are happy to make good profit by family bottle ground this year,due to favourable weather,low labour cost and high demand.. Farming of the popular items is increasing day by day in Kishoreganj..
Bumper yield and fair price have brought fortune for farmers.
The vegetable is now being sent to different wholesale kitchen markets in the Capital, Chittagong and others markets due to its good price.
Many farmers are benefiting financially by being able to sell at good prices in the market.
Hundreds of green and oblong gourds are seen swinging on the scaffolding in some gourd fields of Daorite, Angiadi and Khama villages in Pakundia of Kishoreganj. At the tip of the gourd there are layers of laurel buds on the tip.
Farmers are tending to their gourd fields. Someone is cutting gourd again for sale.
Selim, a farmer from Adityapasha village, said he has grown non-toxic gourds using pheromone traps and yellow traps without using pesticides. Moreover, the use of earthworm manure has resulted in good yield of laurel. People in the area are buying gourds from the land as it is beautiful and delicious to look at. Each gourd is selling at taka 20 to 45. He said that he would make a financial profit by selling gourds.
Selim also said, that I have cultivated gourd in 15 decimal of land.
It cost me two thousand five hundred taka. I have already sold gourds for seven thousand taka. I hope to be able to sell a few thousand more.
According to the Agriculture Office, more or less gourd is cultivated in almost all the areas of one municipality and nine unions of the upazila. However, in Jangalia, Charfaradi, Sukhia, Egarasindur and Burudia Unions, the cultivation of gourd is a little more.
Talking to some farmers, they said Cultivating bottle gourd on bambo platform is expensive, but they preferred to cultivate the vegetable in this process as the application of fertilizer and pesticides as not needed like other vegetable land.
This year, gourd has been cultivated in about 70 hectares of land. Farmers are cultivating safe and non-toxic gourds using pheromone traps and yellow color traps instead of pesticides.
Md. Hamimul Haque Sohag, Deputy Assistant Agriculture Officer (DAAO) of Pakundiya upazila said farmers were earning extra income by cultivating gourds at low cost. They are benefiting a lot.
Farmers are being advised to cultivate different types of vegetables including gourd in a safe way.
Deputy Director of Agricultural Extension, Department in Kishoreganj district Md. Saiful Alam told the New Nation as the farmers are benefiting from the use of earthworm fertilizers instead of chemical fertilizers, for this the farmers of Kishoreganj are inclined to cultivate gourd.
The relentless efforts of the Department of Agricultural Extension will take the present agriculture to a sustainable and prosperous position.
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