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Boro cultivation Begins in Jashore region


Published : 04 Feb 2020 07:10 PM | Updated : 05 Sep 2020 10:19 PM

Boro cultivation begins in Jashore region. The farmers have started working in full swing to prepare their field. Planting of rice seedling has also started in some places. As far as the eyes go, the vast greenery field soothes people's eye.

The farmers of the region eye to good yield and so they are passing very busy time with good care. 

Locals said that they started boro cultivation in many bills due to the relatively insufficient rainfall this year.

Some people made their isle of the land tight to hold water. For this reason, the farmers are working from dawn to dusk even in the severe cold weather.

According to the Jashore Agriculture Extension Department, boro paddy is cultivated in Jashore region at the beginning of the month of Magh. As the weather is good this year, the farmers have started making land and planting paddy seedlings. The target of Irri-boro cultivation has been fixed at 60 thousand hectares of land under eight upazilas in Jashore district.

Among them, 26 thousand hectares in Sadar Upazila, 21 thousand hectares in Sharsha Upazila, 19 thousand hectares in Jhikargachha upazila, 18 thousand thousand hectares in Chougacha upazila, 14 thousand hectares in Abhaynagar upazila, 17 thousand hectares in Bagharpara upazila, 28 thousand hactares in Monirampur upazila and 15 thousand hactares in Keshabpur upazila are brought under borro cultivation.

Farmer Bablur Rahman of Bakra area of Jhikargachha upazila said that last year the yield of Ropa Aman was good but he losses due to lack of good fair. So, this year he has started boro cultivation hoping to recover his losses.

Farmer of the same area, Rubel Hossain said that he cultivated mustard seeds in two bighas of land. Cutting mustard from the ground, he started Irri Boro cultivation expecting good profit.

He informed that this year to prepare the land it costs Tk 1400-1500 per bigha that is more Tk 300-500 than the previous. Moreover, farmers are feared that the cost of cultivation will increase due to the irrigation with shallow engine.

Additional Deputy Director of the District Agriculture Extension Department, Sushant Kumar Tarafdar, said that the farmers are advised to use urea as well as non-urea in thier field.

Moreover, this year there will be no scarcity of boro seedling. We are hopeful of surpassing the target with a bumper yields in this season if we can overtake the natural disaster and irrigation crisis.