BSS, Rangpur :
Agriculture experts at a farmers’ field day have underscored the need for popularising the quadruple cropping pattern among the farmers to produce four crops on the same land annually, increasing crop production.
They laid special emphasis on production, preservation and utilisation of quality seeds, seedlings and saplings of the traditional as well as BARI- evolved high-priced vegetables, oilseeds, spicy and minor grain crops, fruits and flower plants using latest technologies to increase production and earn maximum profits.
They expressed the views at the event jointly organised by the Tuber Crops Research Centre of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) and its Regional Agriculture Research Station in Burirhat area here on Thursday afternoon, a press release.
Thirty male and female farmers of Gangachara upazila of Rangpur participated in the event to observe the exhibition plots and research findings, productivity and production technologies and properties of various crop seeds and quadruple crop farming pattern.
The event was arranged to demonstrate the latest technologies for farming, harvesting, preserving and using of quality seeds, seedlings and saplings of vegetables like tomatoes, cauliflower, barley, broccoli, French beans, beans, lettuce, pumpkin, capsicum, brinjal, BT brinjal, spinach, oil crops like mustard, almond and soybean; spices like onions, garlic, ginger, fennel, black pepper, ‘Firingi’, fenugreek, ‘radhuni’, ‘jaun’ and ‘shaluk; hybrid variety corns, ‘khoi bhutta’ and baby corn; minor grain crops like ‘kaun’, china, barley and ‘sarogam’ and different varieties of fruit and flowers to the farmers.
Chief Scientific Officer of Regional Agriculture Research Station of BARI at Burirhat Md Rais Uddin Chowdhury attended the event as the chief guest.
Principal Scientific Officer of BARI at its Regional Agriculture Research Station Dr Ashish Kumar Saha discussed about the quadruple cropping pattern and technologies for production, preservation and utilisation of quality seeds, seedlings and saplings.
Senior Scientific Officers of BARI at its Regional Agriculture Research Station Dr Md Jamir Uddin, Dr Md Obaidul Haque and Dr Sarker Mohammad Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal, other scientists and their assistants were present.
The chief guest urged the farmers to attain self-sufficiency in production of quality seeds and saplings of the high-priced crops and flowers evolved by BARI using latest technologies and adopt the quadruple cropping pattern to ensure maximum use of land and enhance crop production.
Agriculture experts at a farmers’ field day have underscored the need for popularising the quadruple cropping pattern among the farmers to produce four crops on the same land annually, increasing crop production.
They laid special emphasis on production, preservation and utilisation of quality seeds, seedlings and saplings of the traditional as well as BARI- evolved high-priced vegetables, oilseeds, spicy and minor grain crops, fruits and flower plants using latest technologies to increase production and earn maximum profits.
They expressed the views at the event jointly organised by the Tuber Crops Research Centre of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) and its Regional Agriculture Research Station in Burirhat area here on Thursday afternoon, a press release.
Thirty male and female farmers of Gangachara upazila of Rangpur participated in the event to observe the exhibition plots and research findings, productivity and production technologies and properties of various crop seeds and quadruple crop farming pattern.
The event was arranged to demonstrate the latest technologies for farming, harvesting, preserving and using of quality seeds, seedlings and saplings of vegetables like tomatoes, cauliflower, barley, broccoli, French beans, beans, lettuce, pumpkin, capsicum, brinjal, BT brinjal, spinach, oil crops like mustard, almond and soybean; spices like onions, garlic, ginger, fennel, black pepper, ‘Firingi’, fenugreek, ‘radhuni’, ‘jaun’ and ‘shaluk; hybrid variety corns, ‘khoi bhutta’ and baby corn; minor grain crops like ‘kaun’, china, barley and ‘sarogam’ and different varieties of fruit and flowers to the farmers.
Chief Scientific Officer of Regional Agriculture Research Station of BARI at Burirhat Md Rais Uddin Chowdhury attended the event as the chief guest.
Principal Scientific Officer of BARI at its Regional Agriculture Research Station Dr Ashish Kumar Saha discussed about the quadruple cropping pattern and technologies for production, preservation and utilisation of quality seeds, seedlings and saplings.
Senior Scientific Officers of BARI at its Regional Agriculture Research Station Dr Md Jamir Uddin, Dr Md Obaidul Haque and Dr Sarker Mohammad Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal, other scientists and their assistants were present.
The chief guest urged the farmers to attain self-sufficiency in production of quality seeds and saplings of the high-priced crops and flowers evolved by BARI using latest technologies and adopt the quadruple cropping pattern to ensure maximum use of land and enhance crop production.
