Mustard farming on the rise in Sylhet division

SYLHET, Feb 12: Mustard cultivation is on the rise in Sylhet division. A good number of farmers are now interested to grow the crop for some extra earning through honey collection.

This year the crop was been cultivated on 7,443 hectares of land in all the four districts, official sources said on Sunday. A total of 2,595 hectares of land in Sylhet, 1,100 hectares in Moulvibazar, 1,950 hectares in Habiganj and 1,798 hectares in Sunamganj districts.

The DAE earlier targeted for bringing over 7,200 hectares of land under mustard farming.

The officials of the agi department expect to achieve one ton of production from a hectare of land.

The DAE had set some demonstration plots of mustard in different areas to encourage the farmers to grow it on more land as a vast tract of land remains uncultivated in the division during the Rabi season.

As the harvest began in some areas of Sunamganj, average yield per hectares stood at about 1.3 tonnes, the sources said. About 65 hectares of land had so far been harvested against the total cultivated area of 1,798 hectares of land in the district.

A good number of apiculturists are now busy collecting honey from the bee boxes, which were kept around the mustard land in Habiganj, Sylhet and Sunamganj, the official said.

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