Lalmonirhat Correspondent
Additional short duration rice variety Pariza cultivation is gaining popularity among the farmers in Lalmonirhat.
Farmers are happy to get additional crop short duration rice variety Pariza at different villages in this year.
This short duration rice variety was cultivated at many villages in the district this year getting advice, technical support by NGO RDRS Bangladesh. A good numbers of farmers in the villages harvested their additional crop that will help them to mitigate monga. This year they got bumper out put of this variety in the district Lalmonirhat.
Azizul Islam, a farmer at Panchagram village in Lalmonirhat sadar upazila said, he started to cultivate such short duration rice variety Pariza in the year 2011. He cultivated only one bigha of land for this variety in the first year but he cultivated four bighas land this year, he said adding he has already harvested paddy from his four bigahs land.
“I got 58 maunds of paddy from four bigha land spending Tk 15 thousand. It is my additional crop. I hoping I will cultivate more land for this variety in the next if I get proper technical support and advice from the government or NGO RDRS,” he said.
