Wheat cultivation exceeds target in Gaibandha

GAIBANDHA, Jan 5 (BSS): Cultivation target of wheat, one of the high value crops, has exceeded in all the seven upazilas in the district during the current Rabi season.

Office sources said Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) took up a plan to farm wheat on 2,864 hectares of land in the district this season with the production target of 8,019 tonnes of wheat.

Later, the target fixed by the department exceeded and a total of 3,095 hectares of land were brought under the farming with additional 231 hectares of land, sources said.

The officials of DAE particularly sub-assistant agriculture officers in field level are suggesting the farmers to make the farming a grand success and help the country ensure food security as well.

Besides, the farmers are also being imparted training on successful wheat farming by the department to get desired production against the crop, said district training officer of DAE M. Aminul Islam.

Apart from this, the DAE had taken up a programme for preservation of wheat at farmers' level through setting up demonstration plots at their land, he also said.

Talking to the BSS, deputy director of DAE Mir Abdur Razzak said an initiative had been taken to ensure seed, fertilizer, pesticides and other agri-inputs to the farmers to boost production of wheat this season.