Rangpur targets 53,733 tonnes of mustard production

RANGPUR, Oct 31 (BSS): The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has fixed a target of producing 53,733 tonnes of mustard from 38,710 hectares of land for Rangpur agriculture region during the current (2021-2022) Rabi season.

The DAE officials said farmers cultivated mustard on 38,433 hectares of land and produced 51,542 tonnes of mustard in all five districts of the region during the last 2020-2021 Rabi season.

"The fixed production target of 53,733 tonnes of mustard for this season is higher by 2,191 tonnes than the production of 51,542 tonnes of the last season," Additional Director of the DAE for Rangpur region Agriculturist Md Tauhidul Iqbal said.

Enthusiastic farmers may exceed the fixed mustard farming target in the region during the current season getting special government incentives to recoup the crop losses they incurred during recent floods.

"The farmers are mostly cultivating high yielding varieties of mustard like 'Tori 7', BARI-9, BARI-14, BARI-15 and BINA-4 on more land this time like in the previous seasons in the region," Iqbal said.