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WORKSHOP-SOIL-TEST (with picture)
Soil test-based fertilization must for soil productivity
RAJSHAHI, Oct 12, 2018 (BSS) – Experts suggested awareness for soil test
based fertilization and health management rightly for upholding its
productivity.
They viewed that soil nutrients have gradually been declining due to
disproportionate use of fertilization and creating a negative impact on the
soil productivity.
They said that the farmers should take the responsibility of protecting the
soil health for the sake of food security.
They came up with the observation while addressing a training workshop
on soil sample collection tactics for test at Talanda Union Parishad (UP)
Conference hall under Tanore Upazila in the district on Thursday.
Bangladesh Center for Indigenous Knowledge (BARCIK) and Soil Resource
Development Institute (SRDI) jointly organized the workshop in association
with farmers’ organizations.
More than 50 people including grassroots farmers and public
representatives joined the daylong advocacy programme.
The participants were given ideas of how to detect spurious fertilizer
and sample analysis, avail facilities of mobile soil test laboratory to
detect soil productivity and degradation and fertilizer using guideline
through online.
SRDI Senior Scientific Officer Aminul Islam addressed the meeting as
focal person. Chaired by Shahidul Islam, Regional Coordinator of BARCIK, the
discussion was addressed, among others, by UP Chairman Abul Kashem and
members Mamunur Rahman, Rustam Ali, Laily Begum and Halima Begum and BARCIK
Programme Officer Jahid Ali.
Aminul Islam said disproportionate use of chemical fertilizers and
harmful pesticides for cultivation of high yielding varieties of crops and
vegetables are blamed for continued decline in soil nutrients.
Lesser use of organic matter and little or no use of leguminous green
manure and bio-fertilizers have also been detected as the degradable factors.
Soil test based fertilization has become indispensable to maintain soil
properties positive to growth of plants.
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