Jute growers busy rotting plants to separate fibre

NILPHAMARI, July 22: Farmers in the district are passing busy time rotting the jute plants to separate fibre as the harvest of the crop has started recently.

The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources said around 12,770 hectares of land were brought under the farming of jute with the production target of 1,33,897 tonnes.

Local jute variety was cultivated on 1,831 hectares of land to get 14,662 tonnes of yield and Tosha on 10,939 hectares of land for 1,19,235 tonnes of output.

Newly-harvested jute will appear in the local market in a couple of weeks.

Market sources said price of the cash crop may high this season due to the government's direction on mandatory use of jute bags in packaging food grains.

Abu Bakr, a farmer of Itakhola union under Nilphamari Sadar, said he cultivated jute on one bigha (30 decimal) of land and he is expecting to get around 10 maunds of fibre.

Sources said farmers applied Line Sowing technology in their jute filed this year by using Seeder Machine.

It helped save production cost and misuse of seeds.

Most of the growers used hybrid seeds to boost the production of the golden fibre.

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