Farmers are eyeing bumper wheat yield during the upcoming harvesting season because all the farming fields are in excellent condition amid suitable climatic condition everywhere in Rajshahi region including its vast Barind tract, reports BSS.
Currently, most of the farming fields are in ripening stage and the growers are expected to start harvesting within the end of this month.
Anwar Hossain, 54, a farmer of Durgapur area, said the condition of wheat farming is good since its farming started in the area due to suitable weather and fertile land this season. He is expecting 12 to 15 mounds of yield from per bigha of land.
Hossain said wheat farming has enhanced this year compared to the previous years as production of the cash crop is less than any other crops.
Another farmer Moinul Haque has attained good yield last year and he’s hopeful about expected output this season expressing his thanks to nature. He said there will be no problem in harvesting the food grain crop if suitable climatic condition prevails until the harvesting is completed.
Haque clarified that some natural disasters like Norwester, hailstorm and thunderbolt are the major threat to the crop.
Darul Hossain, 47, of Bhatapara village under Godagari Upazila, has cultivated wheat on four bighas of land and he’s happy over his present farming condition. “We have to use less-irrigation for wheat farming compared to the Boro paddy farming,” he said.
“We are witnessing outstanding and eye-catching wheat fields everywhere in the region by dint of suitable climatic condition from the initial stage of the farming,” said Safiqul Islam, Upazila Agriculture Officer in Godagari.
He mentioned that farmers’
interests towards wheat farming
have been enhanced to a greater extent in the region due to various reasons for the last couple of years. Wheat is one of less-irrigation consu
ming crops.
Many government and non-government organizations concerned are encouraging farmers towards wheat cultivation in the water-stressed Barind area in order to lessen the gradually mounting pressure on its groundwater level.
