BSS, Rajshahi :
Most of the growers have become happy as they got bumper yield and expected market price of the newly harvested potato everywhere in the region including its Barind tract this season.
Dev Dulal Dhali, Deputy Director of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), here said the farmers got bumper potato yield due to favourable climatic condition since beginning of its farming like previous two years. Similarly, they are also getting expected market price.
“We are selling potato at Taka 1000 to 1150 of 85 kilograms during the current harvesting season against last year’s price of Taka 700 to 800,” said Golam Rasul, a grower of Dainger Hat village under Paba Upazila. In the initial stage, farmers are making profit of Taka 10,000 to 15,000 from per hectares of land.
Most of the growers’ harvested better yields of potato in last two to three years and they also obtained expected sale proceeds in the harvesting stage. “I had sold out an 85-kg potato bag at Taka 750 to 800 in previous season, said Ziarul Haque, a farmer of Baya village under the same upazila.
Abdur Rahim, a farmer of Bargachhi village, said both acreage and yield were boosted up in the wake of favorable climatic condition and availability of standard seed in the region.
This season, he along with his sons cultivated potato on around 150 bighas of land. “We are very much optimistic over our outcomes as the weather was absolutely supportive”.
Most of the growers have become happy as they got bumper yield and expected market price of the newly harvested potato everywhere in the region including its Barind tract this season.
Dev Dulal Dhali, Deputy Director of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), here said the farmers got bumper potato yield due to favourable climatic condition since beginning of its farming like previous two years. Similarly, they are also getting expected market price.
“We are selling potato at Taka 1000 to 1150 of 85 kilograms during the current harvesting season against last year’s price of Taka 700 to 800,” said Golam Rasul, a grower of Dainger Hat village under Paba Upazila. In the initial stage, farmers are making profit of Taka 10,000 to 15,000 from per hectares of land.
Most of the growers’ harvested better yields of potato in last two to three years and they also obtained expected sale proceeds in the harvesting stage. “I had sold out an 85-kg potato bag at Taka 750 to 800 in previous season, said Ziarul Haque, a farmer of Baya village under the same upazila.
Abdur Rahim, a farmer of Bargachhi village, said both acreage and yield were boosted up in the wake of favorable climatic condition and availability of standard seed in the region.
This season, he along with his sons cultivated potato on around 150 bighas of land. “We are very much optimistic over our outcomes as the weather was absolutely supportive”.
