CHATTOGRAM, May 13, 2020 (BSS) – At least 82 percent Boro paddy has been
harvested in Chattogram region till today.
The farmers in Chattogram division comprising the districts of Chattogram,
Cox’s Bazar, Noakhali, Feni and Laxmipur are expecting to get, on a average,
10.7 metric tons of hybrid, Ufshi and some local varieties of paddy on per
hectare land.
Boro paddy is cultivated on 2,30,000 hectares of land this year with a
target of cultivating 241,000 hectares in five district of the division.
Nasir Uddin, deputy director of the Department of Agricultural Extension
in Chattogram told BSS that the farmers in the division have got the expected
yield while harvesting paddy even in the current coronavirus situation.
A total of 82 percent paddy has already been harvested in the five
districts in Chattogram division till today, he added.
Nasir hoped that the harvesting of the rest paddy will be completed within
the next seven to10 days.
“We have no shortage of workers to harvest paddy. Because various mills,
factories and shops are closed now and these people are working as labourers
in the paddy fields. Besides, CNG auto rickshaw drivers and workers of
different sectors are also cutting paddy in different places in the region,”
he said.