BSS, Rajshahi :
Agriculturists at a discussion here on Tuesday observed that substantial and sustainable expansion of wheat farming could be the effective means of mitigating the existing water-stress condition in the high Barind tract as wheat is environment friendly crop.
They said time has come to enhance acreage of wheat farming instead of only depending on Irri-boro rice in the dried area to ensure food security amid the adverse impact of climate change.
The agriculturists were addressing a farmers’ field day meeting to mark the crop harvesting and yield assessment of a wheat-seed production projection plot (BARIGOM-28) at Nezampur area Nachole Upazila here yesterday.
Quality Seed Production, Supply and Farmers Training in Crop Production Project of Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) organized the farmers meeting.
BMDA Chairman Dr Akram Hossain Chowdhury addressed the meeting as chief guest with Project Director ATM Rafiqul Islam in the chair. BMDA Executive Engineer Harun-Or-Rashid, Assistant Engineer Shah Monjurul Islam and Assistant Manager (Agriculture) Selim Kabir also spoke on disseminating sustainable cropping management ideas among the grassroots farmers.
Dr Akram Hossain Chowdhury mentioned that wheat could be cultivated on seven to eight bighas of land with the irrigated water for only one bigha of boro rice through soil moisture utilization and the best uses of the modern technologies.
He suggested promotion and dissemination of appropriate farm machinery like power tiller operated seeder, strip till and zero till, bed planter, reaper and thresher to enhance the farm production especially wheat.
Disseminating ideas of modern technologies among the field level agricultural officials and farmers on how to expand the wheat cultivation in the drought-prone area has become indispensable and that could be the effective means of boosting wheat yield as a whole.
Agriculturists at a discussion here on Tuesday observed that substantial and sustainable expansion of wheat farming could be the effective means of mitigating the existing water-stress condition in the high Barind tract as wheat is environment friendly crop.
They said time has come to enhance acreage of wheat farming instead of only depending on Irri-boro rice in the dried area to ensure food security amid the adverse impact of climate change.
The agriculturists were addressing a farmers’ field day meeting to mark the crop harvesting and yield assessment of a wheat-seed production projection plot (BARIGOM-28) at Nezampur area Nachole Upazila here yesterday.
Quality Seed Production, Supply and Farmers Training in Crop Production Project of Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) organized the farmers meeting.
BMDA Chairman Dr Akram Hossain Chowdhury addressed the meeting as chief guest with Project Director ATM Rafiqul Islam in the chair. BMDA Executive Engineer Harun-Or-Rashid, Assistant Engineer Shah Monjurul Islam and Assistant Manager (Agriculture) Selim Kabir also spoke on disseminating sustainable cropping management ideas among the grassroots farmers.
Dr Akram Hossain Chowdhury mentioned that wheat could be cultivated on seven to eight bighas of land with the irrigated water for only one bigha of boro rice through soil moisture utilization and the best uses of the modern technologies.
He suggested promotion and dissemination of appropriate farm machinery like power tiller operated seeder, strip till and zero till, bed planter, reaper and thresher to enhance the farm production especially wheat.
Disseminating ideas of modern technologies among the field level agricultural officials and farmers on how to expand the wheat cultivation in the drought-prone area has become indispensable and that could be the effective means of boosting wheat yield as a whole.
