Rangpur Correspondent :
Vegetables cultivation using eco-friendly Pheromone trap is gaining popularity among the farmers of different upazilas in Rangpur district in recent years.
Presently a large number of farmers of the region are producing huge amount of vegetables using eco-friendly pheromone trap instead of harmful pesticides and are being financially benefited by using the trap at lesser cost compared to pesticides.
Pheromone is a chemical substance that is produced by an insect. It usually serves as a stimulus for other individual of the same species. It is used in a certain products to lure and trap unwanted or harmful insects.
Different varieties of toxic-free vegetable including eggplant, parble, bitter gourd and spiny gourd are being grown in several villages of the of the region in abundance using the trap.
Monsur Ali of Dangapara village in Taraganj upazila told The New nation.
that he has cultivated vegetables on one bighas of land without using any pesticides. After meeting up family requirements, he sells it.
Mofa Mia, another farmer of Jumakhanpara village in Mithapukur upazila told The New Nation that local people purchase chemical-free vegetables from the field grown without insecticides.
Some vegetable growers said they have to spend a large amount of money on insecticides on their vegetable fields. On the other hand they have to spend a nominal cost using pheromone trap.
Pheromone trap is a chemical capsule which is kept in a plastic bottle half-filled with water. The female sex hormone insects that attract the male who get drowned into the water kept in the bottle of the pheromone trap, sources in DAE said.
Vegetables cultivation using eco-friendly Pheromone trap is gaining popularity among the farmers of different upazilas in Rangpur district in recent years.
Presently a large number of farmers of the region are producing huge amount of vegetables using eco-friendly pheromone trap instead of harmful pesticides and are being financially benefited by using the trap at lesser cost compared to pesticides.
Pheromone is a chemical substance that is produced by an insect. It usually serves as a stimulus for other individual of the same species. It is used in a certain products to lure and trap unwanted or harmful insects.
Different varieties of toxic-free vegetable including eggplant, parble, bitter gourd and spiny gourd are being grown in several villages of the of the region in abundance using the trap.
Monsur Ali of Dangapara village in Taraganj upazila told The New nation.
that he has cultivated vegetables on one bighas of land without using any pesticides. After meeting up family requirements, he sells it.
Mofa Mia, another farmer of Jumakhanpara village in Mithapukur upazila told The New Nation that local people purchase chemical-free vegetables from the field grown without insecticides.
Some vegetable growers said they have to spend a large amount of money on insecticides on their vegetable fields. On the other hand they have to spend a nominal cost using pheromone trap.
Pheromone trap is a chemical capsule which is kept in a plastic bottle half-filled with water. The female sex hormone insects that attract the male who get drowned into the water kept in the bottle of the pheromone trap, sources in DAE said.
