RANGPUR, Nov 9, 2020 (BSS) – Experts at a practical training workshop have suggested small-scale tea-growers for adopting scientific methods and latest technologies in cultivating the cash crop on plain lands to enhance production and reap more profits.
“Adoption of scientific methods can boost tea farming in the northern region,” said Senior Scientific Officer (Entomology) of Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB) and its Project Director of Northern Bangladesh Project Agriculturist Dr. Mohammad Shameem Al Mamun.
He said this while conducting the event on ‘Plucking, pruning and pests’ management in tea plantation’ arranged by BTB at Ratnai Schoolhat Bazar in Baliadangi upazila of Thakurgaon on Sunday, said a press release today.
The BTB organised the event to expand small-scale tea cultivation under its ‘Expansion of Small Holding Tea Cultivation in Northern Bangladesh Project’ by reaching the latest scientific methods, technologies and tea related services to farmers’ doorsteps.
Chairman of local Amjankhor union parishad in Baliadangi upazila Mohammad Akalu presided over the event participated by 60 small-scale tea growers of the nearby villages in the union.
Assistant Farm Superintendent at Panchagarh Regional Office of BTB and its In-charge Officer for Thakurgaon district Agriculturist Mohammad Sayedul Haque discussed the plantation, plucking, fertilisation and pruning in tea plantation in the workshop.
Dr Mamun discussed management of tea nursery, soil and fertilisers, scientific methods of tea cultivation, plucking, pruning and tipping, management of tea insects, diseases and weeds and practical knowledge on tea cultivation in the workshop.
“The plain land on the Kartoa Valley ecological zone comprising five sub-Himalayan northern districts of Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, Dinajpur, Nilphamari and Lalmonirhat is highly fertile and its climate condition is also favourable for tea cultivation,” he said.
He suggested farmers for expanding small-scale basis tea cultivation on the plain land in these five sub-Himalayan northern districts on the Kartoa Valley to earn higher profits than many other crops for faster economic development of the region.
“Expanded tea cultivation on the small-scale basis on the plain lands in the Kartoa Valley ecological zone has already unveiled a new horizon of economic prospect for farmers and common people in the northern region of Bangladesh,” Dr Shameem predicted.