Business Desk :
Agriculture Minister Dr M Abdur Razzaque on Thursday called for raising cultivation and production of exotic crops including cashew nuts, coffee and dragon fruit along with conventional crops for greater economic benefit of the farmers as he assured them of providing all out support.
“Along with the conventional crops, the government will provide all out support to the farmers for increasing cultivation, production and processing of the exotic crops”, he told while distributing vehicles among the upazila agriculture officials from his official residence.
About possibility of cashew nuts and coffee cultivation in the country, the minister said, there is huge scope of cashew nuts and coffee cultivation in the Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) and most of the northern region districts as price of these crops is higher and have also huge demand in international markets.
Even the country has to give more attention to increasing production and processing of these crops, he added.
Agriculture Secretary M Nasiruzzaman also joined the online function as the special guest.
Stressing on the need for crops diversification, Dr Razzaque said, “We have to increase the cropping intensity through repeated crop production on the same land as our arable land is shrinking day by day.”
Highlighting the government’s main purpose of transforming subsistence agriculture into more profitable and commercialization, he said the government is giving more importance on commercialization and mechanization of the farm sector in order to bring a qualitative change to growers life.
He urged all the concerned officials and employees to work with due sincerity and integrity in this regard.
The government is now implementing the third phase of a project on ‘Farmers Training through Transforming Technology at the Upazila Level’ at 106 upazilas of 47 districts at a cost of Taka 314.29 crore.
The four-years project will conclude on December in 2022, the minister added.
Chaired by Director General of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) Dr M Abdul Muyeed, the function was also attended, among others, by Additional Agriculture Secretary M Hasanuzzaman Kallol, DAE’s Director M Shah Alam, Project Director Tajul Islam Patwary and other field level officials.
Agriculture Minister Dr M Abdur Razzaque on Thursday called for raising cultivation and production of exotic crops including cashew nuts, coffee and dragon fruit along with conventional crops for greater economic benefit of the farmers as he assured them of providing all out support.
“Along with the conventional crops, the government will provide all out support to the farmers for increasing cultivation, production and processing of the exotic crops”, he told while distributing vehicles among the upazila agriculture officials from his official residence.
About possibility of cashew nuts and coffee cultivation in the country, the minister said, there is huge scope of cashew nuts and coffee cultivation in the Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) and most of the northern region districts as price of these crops is higher and have also huge demand in international markets.
Even the country has to give more attention to increasing production and processing of these crops, he added.
Agriculture Secretary M Nasiruzzaman also joined the online function as the special guest.
Stressing on the need for crops diversification, Dr Razzaque said, “We have to increase the cropping intensity through repeated crop production on the same land as our arable land is shrinking day by day.”
Highlighting the government’s main purpose of transforming subsistence agriculture into more profitable and commercialization, he said the government is giving more importance on commercialization and mechanization of the farm sector in order to bring a qualitative change to growers life.
He urged all the concerned officials and employees to work with due sincerity and integrity in this regard.
The government is now implementing the third phase of a project on ‘Farmers Training through Transforming Technology at the Upazila Level’ at 106 upazilas of 47 districts at a cost of Taka 314.29 crore.
The four-years project will conclude on December in 2022, the minister added.
Chaired by Director General of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) Dr M Abdul Muyeed, the function was also attended, among others, by Additional Agriculture Secretary M Hasanuzzaman Kallol, DAE’s Director M Shah Alam, Project Director Tajul Islam Patwary and other field level officials.
