RANGPUR, Jan 1, 2020 (BSS) – Agriculturists at a farmers’ field day event
have said cultivation of short duration and high yielding variety of BARI
Sarisa-14 between the time of Transplanted Aman rice and Boro rice farming is
highly profitable.
Rangpur Regional Agricultural Research Station (RARS) of Bangladesh
Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) organised the event at Burirhat here
to demonstrate technology for ‘Production of breeding seeds of BARI Sarisa-
14′ on Tuesday afternoon.
Senior Scientific Officer of BARI at RARS Agriculturist Dr. Sarker Md. Abu
Hena Mostafa Kamal presided over the event participated by 100 male and
female farmers.
Principal Scientific Officer of BARI at RARS Agriculturist Dr. Ashish Kumar
Saha addressed the event as the chief guest.
Senior Scientific Officers of BARI at the RARS Agriculturist Dr. Md.
Obaidul Haque and Agriculturist Dr. Md. Harun-Ar-Rashid, its Scientific
Officer Agriculturist Md. Bikash Sarker and Gangachara Upazila Additional
Agriculture Officer Agriculturist Shahnaz Pervin addressed.
The agriculturists apprised the farmers of cultivation technology of short
duration (75 to 80 days) BARI Sarisa-14 variety of mustard, giving them
practical knowledge on production of its quality seeds.
The yield rate of BARI Sarisa-14 variety is higher than that of other
varieties and it is produced between 1,400 kilogram and 1,600 kilogram from
per hectare of land and brings lucrative profits for farmers.
Agriculturist Dr. Haque said farmers can easily cultivate BARI Sarisa-14 on
the same land where they cultivate two crops of Transplanted Aman rice and
Boro rice annually to increase crop production.
“The farmers can earn more profits by cultivating BARI Sarisa-14 during the
gap period between cultivation of Transplanted Aman rice and Boro rice when
the crop land remains fallow,” he added.
Agriculturist Shahnaz said the Department of Agricultural Extension has
accelerated its ongoing activities for expanding cultivation of BARI Sarisa-
14 at farmers’ level.
Dr. Saha said farmers cultivate only T-Aman rice and Boro rice on large
area of medium high land in Rangpur division where three crops can be
cultivated easily by adopting the ‘Transplanted Aman rice-Mustard (BARI
Sarisa-14)-Boro rice cropping pattern.’
“Cultivation of BARI Sarisa-14 between the period of Transplanted Aman rice
and Boro rice will increase production of mustard seed along with reducing
import of edible oil which will save huge foreign currency,” he said.
“BARI Sarisa-14 contains more edible oil and its straws can be used as
cooking fuel to resolve fuel problems to some extent,” he added.