BSS, Gaibandha :
Harvest of mustard, a robi crop, has been completed in all the seven upazilas of the district during the current season.
Office sources said the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) set a target to farm the variety on 7,090 hectares of land this year with the production target of 7,878 tonnes of mustard.
Later, the target fixed by the department exceeded and a total of 12,410 hectares of land were brought under the farming in the district with the production target of 13,790 tonnes of mustard.
Of the total, some 2,775 hectares of land were farmed in Sadar Upazila, 1,155 in Sadullapur, 500 in Palashbari, 5,250 in Gobindaganj, 720 in Sundarganj, 850 in Saghata and 1,160 in Fulchhari Upazila in the district.
As the farmers farmed the crop and nurtured it as per the directions of the field level agri-officials of DAE, they got desired production against the crop that showed more interest in farming the variety next years at larger scale.
Additional deputy director (Crop) of DAE Shawkat Osaman said the farmers of the district have been cultivating mustard in recent years after getting repeated bumper production and better prices of the crop. Easy cultivation process and lower production cost compared to other Rabi crops is one of the main reasons behind popularity of mustard cultivation among the farmers in the area, he also said.
Jahedul Islam, a farmer of Ballamjhar union of Sadar upazila, said the cultivation of mustard requires only one or two times light irrigation depending on soil condition and is easier and less costly than cultivation of other Robi crops but returns much profit.
Harvest of mustard, a robi crop, has been completed in all the seven upazilas of the district during the current season.
Office sources said the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) set a target to farm the variety on 7,090 hectares of land this year with the production target of 7,878 tonnes of mustard.
Later, the target fixed by the department exceeded and a total of 12,410 hectares of land were brought under the farming in the district with the production target of 13,790 tonnes of mustard.
Of the total, some 2,775 hectares of land were farmed in Sadar Upazila, 1,155 in Sadullapur, 500 in Palashbari, 5,250 in Gobindaganj, 720 in Sundarganj, 850 in Saghata and 1,160 in Fulchhari Upazila in the district.
As the farmers farmed the crop and nurtured it as per the directions of the field level agri-officials of DAE, they got desired production against the crop that showed more interest in farming the variety next years at larger scale.
Additional deputy director (Crop) of DAE Shawkat Osaman said the farmers of the district have been cultivating mustard in recent years after getting repeated bumper production and better prices of the crop. Easy cultivation process and lower production cost compared to other Rabi crops is one of the main reasons behind popularity of mustard cultivation among the farmers in the area, he also said.
Jahedul Islam, a farmer of Ballamjhar union of Sadar upazila, said the cultivation of mustard requires only one or two times light irrigation depending on soil condition and is easier and less costly than cultivation of other Robi crops but returns much profit.
