RANGPUR, March 17, 2021 (BSS) – Experts at an on-field practical
training workshop have called upon farmers for adopting scientific methods
and latest technologies in tea cultivation on plain lands to further boost
its production.
Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB) organised the event on ‘Selection of leaves,
fertilisation and pests’ management in tea plantation’ for 60 farmers at
Mirzapur village in Atwari upazila of Panchagarh on Tuesday, a press release
said today.
The event was arranged under the ‘Expansion of small holding tea
cultivation in northern Bangladesh project’ of BTB following the ‘Camellia
Open Sky School Model’ to reach the latest scientific methods, technologies
and tea cultivation related services to farmers.
Senior Scientific Officer (Entomology) of BTB and its Project Director
for the Northern Bangladesh Project Agriculturist Dr. Mohammad Shameem Al
Mamun moderated the on-field practical training workshop.
Development Officer of BTB at its Panchagarh Regional Office
Agriculturist Md. Amir Hossain conducted different sessions in the workshop
as a resource person.
Agriculturist Hossain discussed the latest technologies and methods for
plantation, selection and plucking of tea leaves, fertilisation, integrated
pests’ management (IPM) and pruning and tipping and other important issues in
tea plantation on plain lands.
Agriculturist Mamun said plain lands on the Kartoa Valley ecological
zone comprising five northern districts of Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, Dinajpur,
Nilphamari and Lalmonirhat are highly fertile for tea cultivation.
Tea cultivation on the small-scale basis has been expanding fast on
plain lands every year unveiling a new prospect for farmers and common people
speeding up their socio-economic development in the northern region.
“Farmers are getting more profits through small-scale tea cultivation on
plain lands than many other crops in these five northern districts adopting
scientific methods to improve their living standard and accelerate economic
development of the region,” he said.