Tag: agriculture

Adoption and popularisation of the climate resilient cropping patterns with latest technologies can further increase crop production at reduced costs to attain sustainable food security despite adverse impacts of climate change.

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

The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has taken massive programme to cultivate Boro paddy in all four upazilas of the district during this season.

Farmers of char areas along the river Karatoa in Sadar upazila and other parts of the district have harvested a bumper production of maize this year.

Farmers in the district have achieved a bumper production of Boro  paddy in the current season as the harvesting just concluded.

Growers opt for Ghritakumari variety for high profit Farmers in the northern part of sadar upazila of the district are cultivating Bombay chilli in extended areas of land finding it to be a profitable venture.

Maize cultivation has gained much popularity among char dwellers of the district in recent years as it has played significant role in eradicating their poverty and changing their life.

The farmers have already started plantation of the off-season indigenous parija rice seedlings to complete the process by this month-end everywhere in Rangpur division.

Zinc enriched high yielding BRRI-62 and BRRI-64 paddy developed by Bangladesh Rice Research Institute are now under cultivation for the first time in this district showing bright prospect.

The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) is expecting a bumper production of jackfruits in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) during the current season.

Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has taken up an extensive programme on jute cultivation in the district during the current season.

Instead of the long-lasting conventional method the potato farmers have started using mechanized harvester as it saves cost and reduces labor requirement during the recent past peak harvesting season for the first time in the district.

The perching method in agriculture has gained popularity in six upazilas of the district.

The special government incentives, being provided directly to the farmers, have become effective in popularizing cultivation of short duration Aus rice in the northern regions, official sources said.

Harvest of different variety crops, including local variety early Boro, cultivated on the dried up riverbeds and low-lying charlands on the Brahmaputra basin in the northern region, has already started.

Bumper wheat production is expected in the district in the current season.

A day-long training on ‘Tilapia Fish Fries Nursing’ aimed at boosting fish production in the country was held at Islampur upazila on Wednesday.

By dint of much interest among the farmers and others concerned, acreage of crop farming especially wheat in bed-planting method has started gaining popularity in the region including its vast barind tract for the last couple of years.

Although Boro rice cultivation at Muria Haor in the district is frequently affected by flashfloods, the government has taken no remedial measures so far.

The farmers in the district have cultivated Boro paddy on 54,710 hectares of land during the current season and expecting a bumper production of the yield.

The farmers of the district are expecting bumper production of Boro paddy in the current season.

Experts at a training workshop have underscored the need for optimum and safer use of chemical pesticides in crop fields to save the agro-products from poisonous contamination that causes harms to the public health.

The farmers have produced over 2.94 lakh tonnes of mustard oilseeds during this Rabi season after completion of harvest everywhere in the northern region a couple of weeks ago, official sources said.

Farmers in Satkhira are getting interested in cultivating sunflower gradually finding it to be a profitable venture for their economic uplift.

Bumper wheat production has brought smile on the face of farmers of all the 13 upazilas in the district as they got fair price for the crop during the current season.

Farmers in Magura district have seen a bumper production of vegetables in the current season much to their delight.

Farmers have completed the transplantation of boro paddy everywhere in eight districts under Rajshahi division attaining 99 per cent of the target fixed by the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) till March 15.