RANGPUR, March 23, 2021 (BSS) -Experts at an on-field training workshop have stressed on ensuring scientific agronomic management using latest technologies in tea cultivation on plain lands to boost production of high quality tea.
Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB) organised the event on ‘Selection of leaves, fertilisation and pest management in tea plantation’ for 60 tea growers at Satmera village in Sadar upazila of Panchagarh on Monday afternoon, a press release said today.
The workshop 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 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 scientific methods of plantation, selection and plucking of tea leaves, fertilisation, integrated and organic pests’ management, pruning and tipping and other important issues in tea farming on plain lands.
He said plain lands of the five districts of Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, Dinajpur, Nilphamari and Lalmonirhat in the sub-Himalayan northern region are highly fertile and favourable for tea cultivation.
“Expanded tea cultivation on the small-scale basis on plain lands has already unveiled a new horizon of economic prospect for farmers and common people speeding up their economic development in the northern region,” he said.
Agriculturist Dr. Mamun suggested farmers to expand tea cultivation ensuring scientific agronomic management to earn higher profits than many other crops, change their fortune and speed up economic development of the region.