GAIBANDHA, Dec 25, 2020 (BSS) – Around 5.35 lakh tonnes of clean boro rice are expected to be produced from 1.30 lakh hectares of land in all the seven upazilas of the district during the current season.
Office sources said the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has set a target to bring a total of 1, 30,200 hectares of land under the Boro cultivation this year with the production target of 5,35,000 metric tons of clean rice.
To bring the land under the cultivation programme, the farmers have prepared seed beds on 7500 hectares of low land where the seedlings have grown well.
Though the green seedlings were being affected due to cold wave with dense fog sweeping across the northern region including Gaibandha district, the department took precautionary measures to protect the seedlings from cold injuries through motivating the farmers.
To help the farmers cultivate, the Boro paddy without economic troubles, different schedule banks including Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB)has taken up plans to disburse agri loans to the growers on easy term during the season, said Sarwar Hossain, zonal manager of RAKUB, here.
To make the cultivation a grand success, necessary measures had been taken to supply fertilizers, insecticides, and other agri inputs to the farmers at fair prices side by side with ensuring power supply facility by Northern Electric Supply Company and Rural Electrification Board, said an official of DAE.
Bangladesh Barind Development Authority has also made their 460 electricity run deep tube wells and 45 low lift pumps fully ready to operation to help supply water as irrigation to the farmers at reasonable prices during the current Boro season, said executive engineer Azadul Islam.
Talking to the BSS, deputy director (DD) of DAE here agriculturist Masudur Rahman said the farmers were advised to transplant the raised seedlings of the boro paddy on their respective land as per the suggestions of the filed level sub assistant agriculture officers.
In reply to a question, the DD said though the transplantation of seedlings of Boro paddy started in limited form at low lying areas here, it would start massively after January 15 across the district and continue till March 15.