RAJSHAHI, Dec 31 (BSS): Prospects of boosting additional around 0.1 million metric tonnes of lentil output is bright in the region including the vast Barind tract.
Agricultural extension officials, scientists and researchers concerned revealed the prospect referring to some on-farm research findings.
The studies evaluated a set of conservation agriculture based resource conserving tillage techniques to address how to use residual soil moisture in rain-fed areas, higher cost of production and low productivity due to late planting in the region.
They mentioned that substantial and sustainable promotion of high yielding varieties and modern farming technologies has become an urgent need to materialize the existing potentialities for meeting up the country's gradually increasing demand of the cereal crop.
Around 80,000 hectares of land remain fallow for more than three months after the harvest of transplanted aman paddy every year. There has been bright scope of bringing the huge land under the pulse farming in order to best uses of those alongside increasing cropping intensity amid the current water-stress condition.
Dr Israil Hossain, Chief Scientific Officer of Regional Wheat Research Center (RWRC), said recent research has uncovered two new high-yielding, disease-resistant varieties of lentil which has the potential to significantly raise productivity and strengthen food and nutritional security in Bangladesh.
There are enormous prospects of harvesting additional one lakh tonnes of lentil every year including the high barind tract comprising Rajshahi, Naogaon and Chapainawabgonj districts.
He says there should be adequate measures for motivating the farmers to make the farming popular and profitable at the growers' level.
Prospects of boosting lentil output bright in Rajshahi region
FE Team | Published: January 01, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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