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Agri experts in a function here on Wednesday urged the farmers to cultivate flood tolerant paddy on the land of flood prone areas in larger scale to avoid the losses and help the country achieve food security.

Seedbeds are being prepared by the farmers to grow healthy seedlings for Boro paddy farming in all the seven upazilas of the district during the current Boro season.

An extensive potato cultivation plan has been taken up in the district this year.

Farmers and officials of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) are expecting a bumper production of winter vegetables in Khulna in the current Rabi season.

Commercial cultivation of orange is gaining popularity at different upazilas of the district as the growers are getting bumper production of the aristocrat fruit in recent years.

Speakers at a farmers’ awareness meeting have underscored the need for soil health management rightly for retaining its productivity.

A Bangladeshi rights activist has been named as one of the winners of a Philippine-based international peace prize this year. AHM Nouman won the ‘Gusi Peace Prize International’ for his contribution “to poverty alleviation and humanitarianism”.

Some 353 hectares of land have been brought under onion and green chili cultivation in the district in the current season.

Farmers of the district are now expecting a bumper production of Transplanted Aman (T-Aman) paddy in the district as they have already exceeded this year’s cultivation target of the crop.

Cultivation of flood tolerant paddies has increased in the district this year compared to the last year as the farmers are getting desired yield despite submerging the seedlings of the varieties for 10- 12 days.

A farmers’ gathering was held at the Baradadpur paddy filed premises in Gomostapur upazila and Nezampur village in Nachal upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Friday on the Farmers’ Field Day.

Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) has disbursed around Tk 344.06 crore as loan to boost rural economy alongside employment generation in the country’s northwest region in the first four months of this current 2013-14 fiscal.

The farmers have completed harvest of the short duration Aman paddies in the northern districts to get bumper production combating the seasonal lean period of Aswin and Kartik months this year, experts and officials said.

A bumper production of sugarcane planted in 2012-13 season is expected at eight sub-zones of Rangpur Sugar Mills Limited (RSML) as the plants of the sugarcane have grown well on the land.

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Farmers in the country’s northwest region are very much happy as the avail the scopes of catching the lucrative high price markets of early varieties of vegetables.

The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has fixed a target of producing 6.24 lakh tonne mustard from 5.20 lakh hectares of land during this Rabi season in the country, official sources said.

Cultivation of crops through tissue culture has brought a silent revolution in agricultural sector in Rajshahi region.

Expanded adoption of Alternate Drying and Wetting (AWD) irrigation technology while farming Boro crop can enhance rice production saving enormous underground waters to benefit the nation by Taka 5,500 crore annually.

Emphasis should be given on soil health management rightly for protecting its productivity as the soil nutrients has gradually been declining, researchers concerned said.

The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has fixed a target of producing 86.50 lakh tonnes winter vegetables from 4.40 lakh hectares land during this Rabi season throughout the country, official sources said Monday.

Water stagnation along vast tracts of wetland in nine upazilas of Bagerhat has kept 62,000 bighas of land out of cultivation, especially of aman paddy.

By dint of house to house cattle farming, the Rajshahi region has started becoming enriched with livestock resources during the last couple of years that has been proved in the recently taken place brisk Eid cattle markets.

Farmers can harvest four crops from the same land annually through expanded cultivation of short duration BU dhan 1 during Aman season adopting newer cropping pattern to increase food production through crop intensification.

Speakers in a function here on Wednesday urged the farmers to cultivate short duration and drought tolerant paddies BRRI dhan 56 and BRRI dhan 57 in larger scale to ensure food security to keep pace with changed climatic condition.

A day-long field day on ‘Mango Cultivation’ was held at Bishnopur village under Damurhuda upazila of the district yesterday.

Agriculture experts at a farmers’ field day have stressed for expanded cultivation of drought-tolerant variety paddies to increase rice production for ensuring food security under adverse climate.

Bangladesh eyes a bumper production of the flood, drought-and saline-tolerant paddies in different stress-prone regions after expanded and successful cultivation of the paddy varieties during this Aman season.

Perching method has gained much popularity among farmers of the district in recent years as the technology is playing significant roles in protecting the paddy field from pest attacks.

From: Tess Riley, Green Futures, Triple Pundit