Farmers taking away their harvested Aman paddy home from a field in Balua Mashimpur area of Mithapukur upazila under Rangpur district - FE Photo High yield of Aman paddy as well as fair price have brought unbounded happiness for the farmers in Rangpur and Sylhet region in the current season.
Our correspondent from Rangpur reports: Harvesting of Aman paddy has already been completed in the agricultural region of Rangpur and growers have witnessed a good harvest.
According to the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), Rangpur, Aman paddy was cultivated on 6,19,745 hectares of land in five districts of the region.
The districts are: Rangpur, Kurigram, Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat and Gaibandha.
Presently, Aman paddy is being sold for Tk1,100 to Tk 1,600 per maund depending on varieties and qualities in local markets.
Sources said at the initial stage of planting seedlings, peasants faced difficulties due to inadequate rainfall; but subsequently they could overcome the situation by giving utmost efforts and achieved expected production of the crop.
DAE sources said during the current season, farmers of the Rangpur agricultural region have produced around 29,81,942 tonnes of paddy.
Anisur Rahman, a farmer of Balua Mashimpur area of Mithapukur upazila of Rangpur district, told The Financial Express that he cultivated Swarna-5 paddy on eight bighas of land this season and got satisfactory yield. He got around 26 to 27 maunds of paddy per bigha. He also expressed satisfaction over the current market price of his produce.
Additional director of the DAE, Rangpur agricultural region Md Obaidur Rahman Mandal said farmers in the region have achieved the highest average Aman yield this season and the price is also satisfactory.
He also said as harvesting of Aman paddy has been completed, farmers are now planting potato and many are preparing Boro paddy seedbeds. As a result there is no possibility of food crisis in Rangpur region, he added.
Our correspondent from Sylhet reports: Farmers in Syhet region are happy with a good harvest of Aman paddy this season, despite being battered by repeated spells of flood last year (2024).
They managed to recover to some extent form the loss they suffered in the past two seasons, said farmers like Abdul Hasib of Baushi village in Golapganj upazila of Sylhet district.
The Aman paddy harvesting in the division has already been completed, informed a DAE official.
Additional director of the DAE, Sylhet region Kazi Mujibur Rahman said the farmers are quite happy with a good Aman harvest this season.
Total 428,123 hectares of land were brought under Aman cultivation in the region, of which floods damaged paddy on 14,877 hectares this season.
Farmer Abdul Bari of Turukbag village in Golapganj upazila said cultivators had suffered badly due to floods during the May-July period.
They cultivated Aman paddy in a larger area after floodwater receded and the land got sediments, which helped get better yield of the crop.
Meanwhile, trade of Aman paddy is going on in full swing in the local markets where farmers are selling their produce amid much enthusiasm.
In the rural markets, newly-harvested paddy is being sold for Tk 1,200 to Tk1,350 per maund, farmers' sources said.
DAE official sources said although the region had been worst hit by floods last year, farmers in good number in the region, including Sunamganj district, cultivated hybrid and short-duration varieties of Aman paddy for early harvest and got a good yield.
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