BSS, Rajshahi :
Scientists and Agriculturists in training sessions have urged the farmers and other growers and traders to give utmost emphasis on safe harvesting, transporting and marketing of mango for better price along with hygienic preservation and consumption.
They viewed there is no alternative to being all the mango farmers and businessmen under requisite training and habituating with other best practices for making the mango harvesting and marketing process safe and hygienic.
They mentioned that modern technologies need to be promoted commercially in the process from harvesting to marketing in Rajshahi and Chapainawabgonj districts during the forthcoming harvesting season to protect mango from unethical mixing of formalin and other harmful insecticides besides facilitating the farmers to get quality and better yield and price.
Mango is the leading seasonal cash crop of the country’s northwest region and dominates the economy in the two districts famous for the delicious fruit.
They said there are about 30 lakh mango trees of different ages and
varieties on some 32,816 hectares in the region with creation of many more new mango orchards and increased mango farming in the homesteads in recent years.
If the fruit bagging method were used substantially, use of harmful
chemical insecticides and pesticides could be reduced to a greater extent on the huge trees. Thereby, the technology will open up a new door of exporting mango of the two districts, to various foreign markets.
They were addressing two separate training sessions titled “Mango
Harvesting, Segregation, Preservation, Bagging and Transportation for Safe Marketing” for the small farmers held at Nachdanpur under Godagari Upazila and at Chimna village under Tanore Upazila of the district on Wednesday.
Agriculture Sustainable and Socio-Economic Development Organization
(ASSEDO) organized the practical training in association with Promoting Food Security and Livelihoods of Marginalized People of Barind Tract Project and Oxfam-Novib. More than 50 farmers both male and female, local service providers and traders joined the training.
Godagari Agriculture Officer Mozdar Hossain, Tanore Upazila Agriculture Officer Proshanta Kumar Sarker conducted the training as resource persons.
ASSEDO Executive Director Agriculturist Rabiul Alam, Project Manager Mahbub Jaman Tapan, Technical Officer Muktar Hossain and Field Facilitators Kismat Ara, Ismail Hossain, Nazma Khatun and Asgar Ali also spoke.
The speakers revealed that bagged fruits had high recovery of marketable fruits over the non-bagged ones. Pre-harvest fruit bagging is a useful approach for plant protection and improved post-harvest fruit quality as bagging of mango fruits for lower insect and disease damage in fruits.
Scientists and Agriculturists in training sessions have urged the farmers and other growers and traders to give utmost emphasis on safe harvesting, transporting and marketing of mango for better price along with hygienic preservation and consumption.
They viewed there is no alternative to being all the mango farmers and businessmen under requisite training and habituating with other best practices for making the mango harvesting and marketing process safe and hygienic.
They mentioned that modern technologies need to be promoted commercially in the process from harvesting to marketing in Rajshahi and Chapainawabgonj districts during the forthcoming harvesting season to protect mango from unethical mixing of formalin and other harmful insecticides besides facilitating the farmers to get quality and better yield and price.
Mango is the leading seasonal cash crop of the country’s northwest region and dominates the economy in the two districts famous for the delicious fruit.
They said there are about 30 lakh mango trees of different ages and
varieties on some 32,816 hectares in the region with creation of many more new mango orchards and increased mango farming in the homesteads in recent years.
If the fruit bagging method were used substantially, use of harmful
chemical insecticides and pesticides could be reduced to a greater extent on the huge trees. Thereby, the technology will open up a new door of exporting mango of the two districts, to various foreign markets.
They were addressing two separate training sessions titled “Mango
Harvesting, Segregation, Preservation, Bagging and Transportation for Safe Marketing” for the small farmers held at Nachdanpur under Godagari Upazila and at Chimna village under Tanore Upazila of the district on Wednesday.
Agriculture Sustainable and Socio-Economic Development Organization
(ASSEDO) organized the practical training in association with Promoting Food Security and Livelihoods of Marginalized People of Barind Tract Project and Oxfam-Novib. More than 50 farmers both male and female, local service providers and traders joined the training.
Godagari Agriculture Officer Mozdar Hossain, Tanore Upazila Agriculture Officer Proshanta Kumar Sarker conducted the training as resource persons.
ASSEDO Executive Director Agriculturist Rabiul Alam, Project Manager Mahbub Jaman Tapan, Technical Officer Muktar Hossain and Field Facilitators Kismat Ara, Ismail Hossain, Nazma Khatun and Asgar Ali also spoke.
The speakers revealed that bagged fruits had high recovery of marketable fruits over the non-bagged ones. Pre-harvest fruit bagging is a useful approach for plant protection and improved post-harvest fruit quality as bagging of mango fruits for lower insect and disease damage in fruits.
