BSS, Rajshahi :
Cultivation of malta, a high valued citrus fruit, has been gaining popularity as the growers are reaping lucrative outputs from the farming in the region including its vast Barind tract.
Commercial cultivation of the citrus fruits has begun at Godagari, Paba, Mohanpur, Durgapur, Bagmara, Nachole, Bholahat and Rahanpur Upazilas recently making the farmers happy and enthusiastic side by side with vibrating the local economic activities.
The farmers who cultivate malta are now more interested to cultivate the fruit instead of many other fruits and vegetables. This year, this fruit is expected to be produced well.
Some of the farmers said that cultivation of the fruit will bring a revolution in economy of the villages as hundreds of people from ultra-poor families have attained self-reliance by cultivating malta.
DASCOH Foundation, a non-government organization, under its ‘Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) Project, is extending technical and financial support to the farmers for boosting the malta production in the region as part of its effort to promote the less-water consuming crops in the drought-prone area.
Assistant Coordinator of the project, Jahangir Alam Khan said they provided financial support worth Taka 31.17 lakh for installation of 17 submersible pumps with seven solar panels for ensuring irrigation facilities to around 200 bigha of malta farming fields in drip method.
So far, 423 farmers and local government representatives were imparted training on how to cultivate the crop properly.
Meanwhile, newly harvested malta has already started arriving in the local markets. Vendors are selling the fruit in most of the city areas attracting buyers’ eyes.
Cultivation of malta, a high valued citrus fruit, has been gaining popularity as the growers are reaping lucrative outputs from the farming in the region including its vast Barind tract.
Commercial cultivation of the citrus fruits has begun at Godagari, Paba, Mohanpur, Durgapur, Bagmara, Nachole, Bholahat and Rahanpur Upazilas recently making the farmers happy and enthusiastic side by side with vibrating the local economic activities.
The farmers who cultivate malta are now more interested to cultivate the fruit instead of many other fruits and vegetables. This year, this fruit is expected to be produced well.
Some of the farmers said that cultivation of the fruit will bring a revolution in economy of the villages as hundreds of people from ultra-poor families have attained self-reliance by cultivating malta.
DASCOH Foundation, a non-government organization, under its ‘Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) Project, is extending technical and financial support to the farmers for boosting the malta production in the region as part of its effort to promote the less-water consuming crops in the drought-prone area.
Assistant Coordinator of the project, Jahangir Alam Khan said they provided financial support worth Taka 31.17 lakh for installation of 17 submersible pumps with seven solar panels for ensuring irrigation facilities to around 200 bigha of malta farming fields in drip method.
So far, 423 farmers and local government representatives were imparted training on how to cultivate the crop properly.
Meanwhile, newly harvested malta has already started arriving in the local markets. Vendors are selling the fruit in most of the city areas attracting buyers’ eyes.
