'Organic fertilisers can increase crop production'

NARSINGDI, Aug 29 (BSS): Application of organic and compost fertilisers can increase crop productions, reducing use of chemical fertilisers side by side with substantially improving soil health.

Use of organic fertilisers also help maintain ecology, bio-diversity and environment and reduces the risks of pest attacks in the crop field.

Deputy Director, Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) in Narsingdi, said application of organic and compost fertilisers could increase crop production by up to 15 per cent along with improving environment.

He said that use and production of organic fertilisers have been increasing in all the six upazilas in the district where farmers have now set up huge faith and heaps of compost, vermin compost and farmyard compost fertiliser.

The DD said that cultivators of the district are well aware of using the soil components. They do not use chemical fertiliser haphazardly or unnecessarily as before destroying the production capacity of their land. Now, they are using organic fertilizers including cow-dung and water hyacinth which posses some capacity to retain the production capacity of cultivable land.

Cultivators of the district also know that repeated use of chemical fertiliser lessens the fertility of soil which could be increased by using compost fertiliser on the crops.