Steps taken to produce poison-free tomatoes

Everyday we are eating tometos, But ever we think that we are eating slow poison by eating poisonous tometos.Farmers of Bangladesh regularly use chemical fertilizers and pesticides in the tometos fields. As a result people are being attacked with various diseases including diarrhea, Jaundice and deadly debases cancer by eating this tometos Recently Department of Agriculture Extension Narsingdi has taken necessary steps to produce poison free tometos. The Department have been given knowledge to the farmers on the bad effects of using pesticide and chemical fertilizer on tometos fields and also being given them training o pest Management.Because of the training and motivation, a large number of farmers of the district are now quite aware on the harmful effect of using chemical fertilizers in their tometos fields, they are now inspired to cultivate poison free tometos using vermin compost and others organic fertilizer avoiding chemical fertilizers and pesticide on their land. Narsingdi district is a leading tometo productive areas in the Country. Usually supply 50 percent of its production to the capital and others districts. Deputy Director Department of Agriculture extension (DAE) Shovish Chondro Gayen said farmers of the district are now well skilled to produce poison free tometos. He said a good number of farmers of the district are now cultivating poison free tometo and achieving economic self reliance. Experts, local people and officials of the district said that those who were cultivated tometos by using natural organic fertilizers. They are now quite aware of harmful effect on the production of tometos using chemical fertilizers. Sapna and santa Begum, the two house wife of village Hosanpur under Belabo upazila in the district have achieved tremendous success in producing huge quantity of poison free tometo like their homestead during the last winter tometo season by using vermin compost. During the present summer tometo season they also cultivated various tometos. The demand of poison free tometos is more and rate is high in the local market then tometo produce by using chemical fertilizer.Like Sapna and Santa a good number of women in different villages of the district are now inspired to cultivate poison free tometos in their homestead by using vermin compost. They women made the vermin in their home by the assistant of different NGOS.M.A. Awal, Narsingdi