Rangpur Correspondent :
Sweet pumpkin cultivation on fallow char lands has gained popularity among the ultra poor living on theTeesta river basins at Gangachhara upazila in Rangpur district.
A good number of growers have already become financially solvent by cultivating the crop on nearby sandy char lands lying on the riverbeds. According to sources, a total of 100 acres of land of 500 ultra poor people living in 6 char areas under Gangachhara upazila of the district have been brought under the cultivation this year.
Practical Action Bangladesh (PAB), a UK-based non-government international organisation, is providing all kinds of technical supports to the cultivators through its partner organisation JSKS under PFP Shiree project funded by UK aid and Government of Bangladesh.
Rani, an extreme poor woman of Nohali Union of the upazila said, “We are providing the water and fertilizer to the plants regularly. The plants are growing well and we expect we shall get the expected output that will help alleviate our poverty”, she added.
Huda Miah, at Minarpara village under the Upazila said he earned TK 51,000 by selling over 2200 pieces of sweet pumpkin last year. This year, he has cultivated the crop on the char land on large scale with the hopes of getting satisfactory yield than that of previous year, he also said.
JSKS project officer Mamunur Rashid said the ultra-poor people of the char areas under the upazila are getting financial and nutritional supports through cultivating sweet pumpkin on fallow char lands and it is gradually getting popular in the region, he added.
Sweet pumpkin cultivation on fallow char lands has gained popularity among the ultra poor living on theTeesta river basins at Gangachhara upazila in Rangpur district.
A good number of growers have already become financially solvent by cultivating the crop on nearby sandy char lands lying on the riverbeds. According to sources, a total of 100 acres of land of 500 ultra poor people living in 6 char areas under Gangachhara upazila of the district have been brought under the cultivation this year.
Practical Action Bangladesh (PAB), a UK-based non-government international organisation, is providing all kinds of technical supports to the cultivators through its partner organisation JSKS under PFP Shiree project funded by UK aid and Government of Bangladesh.
Rani, an extreme poor woman of Nohali Union of the upazila said, “We are providing the water and fertilizer to the plants regularly. The plants are growing well and we expect we shall get the expected output that will help alleviate our poverty”, she added.
Huda Miah, at Minarpara village under the Upazila said he earned TK 51,000 by selling over 2200 pieces of sweet pumpkin last year. This year, he has cultivated the crop on the char land on large scale with the hopes of getting satisfactory yield than that of previous year, he also said.
JSKS project officer Mamunur Rashid said the ultra-poor people of the char areas under the upazila are getting financial and nutritional supports through cultivating sweet pumpkin on fallow char lands and it is gradually getting popular in the region, he added.
