Nilphamari Correspondent :
Agriculture experts at a farmers’ field day recently stressed for countrywide expanded cultivation of the off-season, indigenous, short duration and local variety parija rice to ensure food security amid adverse climate.
They were addressing the field day arranged for exhibition of parija rice cultivation technology and its harvesting by RDRS Bangladesh, a reputed NGO, at village Melabor under Barovita union of Kishoreganj upazila in Nilphamari district.
Earlier, the NGO distributed 11,250 kg parija seed among 2,200 new beneficiary farmers of eight districts under Rangpur division this season under its core programme and Crop Intensification Project.
Under the programme, 1,500 farmers have cultivated parija rice on 1,500 bigha lands, adopting the early
Deputy Director of the DAE for Nilphamari Golam Mohammad Idris attended the occasion as the chief guest with Chairman of local Barovita Union Parishad Alhaj Md Fazlar Rahman in the chair.
Professor of the Department of Agronomy of BSMRAU Dr Md. Moynul Haque, Consultant of
International Rice Research Institute Dr MG Neogi, Senior Monitoring Officer of KGF Abdul Baten and Kishoreganj Upazila Agriculture Officer Mohd. Rezaul Islam attended as the special guests.
Agriculture and Environment Coordinator of RDRS Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid delivered the welcome speech narrating farming technology of parija rice on the occasion moderated by its Programme
Coordinator for Nilphamari Unit KM Rashedul Arefin. A total of 400 male and female framers of the area attended the occasion to observe the framing technologies of parija rice and its harvest on the field of farmer Dhiren Chandra who got 4 tonne paddy yield per hectare.
The experts said the farmers completed transplantation of 15 to 18day-old parija rice seedling by May 31 last and the harvest will end by August 15 next to produce 3.5 tonne additional paddy per hectare on an average.
They said parija rice can be harvested in 70 to 75 days after seedling transplantation during the off season in between late May and mid-August when the fields remain fallow after Boro harvest and beforeplantation of T-Aman seedlings. The chief guest said cultivation of parija rice has been expanding fast creating a new era and suggested farmers for its expanding farming to increase rice production ensuring four crop yields annually from the same land for attaining national food security.
Agriculture experts at a farmers’ field day recently stressed for countrywide expanded cultivation of the off-season, indigenous, short duration and local variety parija rice to ensure food security amid adverse climate.
They were addressing the field day arranged for exhibition of parija rice cultivation technology and its harvesting by RDRS Bangladesh, a reputed NGO, at village Melabor under Barovita union of Kishoreganj upazila in Nilphamari district.
Earlier, the NGO distributed 11,250 kg parija seed among 2,200 new beneficiary farmers of eight districts under Rangpur division this season under its core programme and Crop Intensification Project.
Under the programme, 1,500 farmers have cultivated parija rice on 1,500 bigha lands, adopting the early
Deputy Director of the DAE for Nilphamari Golam Mohammad Idris attended the occasion as the chief guest with Chairman of local Barovita Union Parishad Alhaj Md Fazlar Rahman in the chair.
Professor of the Department of Agronomy of BSMRAU Dr Md. Moynul Haque, Consultant of
International Rice Research Institute Dr MG Neogi, Senior Monitoring Officer of KGF Abdul Baten and Kishoreganj Upazila Agriculture Officer Mohd. Rezaul Islam attended as the special guests.
Agriculture and Environment Coordinator of RDRS Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid delivered the welcome speech narrating farming technology of parija rice on the occasion moderated by its Programme
Coordinator for Nilphamari Unit KM Rashedul Arefin. A total of 400 male and female framers of the area attended the occasion to observe the framing technologies of parija rice and its harvest on the field of farmer Dhiren Chandra who got 4 tonne paddy yield per hectare.
The experts said the farmers completed transplantation of 15 to 18day-old parija rice seedling by May 31 last and the harvest will end by August 15 next to produce 3.5 tonne additional paddy per hectare on an average.
They said parija rice can be harvested in 70 to 75 days after seedling transplantation during the off season in between late May and mid-August when the fields remain fallow after Boro harvest and beforeplantation of T-Aman seedlings. The chief guest said cultivation of parija rice has been expanding fast creating a new era and suggested farmers for its expanding farming to increase rice production ensuring four crop yields annually from the same land for attaining national food security.
