BSS, Rangpur
Experts at a daylong workshop have called upon the farmers for optimum use of dolomite (Dolochun) that makes cultivable lands more fertile through preventing soil acidity to increase crop production.
RDRS Bangladesh organised the workshop on “Food Security:
Impact of Dolomite in Acidic Land” under its Food for Progress Bangladesh Project for the local farmers at its Birganj office in Birganj upazila town of Dinajpur on Thursday.
The Colonel University in the USA extended financial cooperation in arranging the workshop under the Colonel A F P Lime Project for expanding technology of optimum lime application to acidic lands.
Additional Upazila Agriculture Officer (AUAO) of Birganj Huzzatul Islam conducted different sessions of the daylong workshop as the main resource person with Manager (Crop) Mohammad Hasanuzzaman of RDRS Bangladesh in the chair.
Filed Trainer of RDRS Bangladesh Nazmul Hossain extended assistance to the AUAO in the workshop participated by 16 male and female farmers of the upazila.
The trainers also practically exhibited the technology for optimum dolomite application at the acidic crop fields for preventing soil acidity.
The speakers said about 50 percent cultivable land in Bangladesh is acidic, 27 percent highly acidic and the farmers could increase crop production by 10 to 50 percent through preventing soil acidity by optimum liming with dolomite.
Most of the lands in greater Rangpur, Dinajpur, Sylhet, Chittagong, Barind and Madhupur regions are highly acidic in nature and the farmers do not get their desired crop outputs from their cultivated lands due to the reason, they said.
