Adoption of latest techs can boost agri production, seminar told
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
RANGPUR, Sept 15 (BSS): Speakers at a meeting here today said the farmers could definitely increase the overall agriculture production through adopting the latest agro-technologies.
They also expressed the confidence that the country could definitely achieve self-reliance in food production by using the latest technologies in an integrated and comprehensive manner.
The country has full potential to become self-reliant in food production and it can export its surplus production of quality crops, fruits, vegetables and others to earn foreign exchange instead of importing foodgrains, edible oils and spices in future, they added.
They said this at a meeting on the Farmers' Field Day organised by the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) under the ongoing Integrated Crop Management (ICM) Schooling Programme at Osmanpur Sarderpara in Badarganj Upazila.
The discussion was organised on the occasion of the concluding ceremony of the 20-week training course on ICM Schooling that was participated by 50 male and female farmers of the area on the latest agriculture technologies.
Chaired by Imam of Osmanpur Munshipara Jam-e-Mosque Moulana Zakaria, the meeting was attended by chairman of Bishnupur Union Parishad Asaduzzaman Chowdhury as the chief guest.
Agriculture Extension Officer and ICM Team Leader Shameem Ashraf, Plant Protection Officer Muhammad Iqbal, Upazila Sub- assistant Engineer Ahsan Habib, Sub-assistant Agriculture Officer Salah Uddin Ahmed, Arun Kumar Roy, Kanak Chandra Roy and Muktara Parveen Lipi, among others, addressed the meeting.
Officials and experts of the upazila DAE, local public representatives and participant male and female farmers from all over the area took part in the discussion.
The experts also visited heaps of the compost fertilisers prepared by the participant farmers, pisciculture projects, and exhibition plots of various high-yielding crops farming, Integrated Pests Management plots and tree plantation and animal husbandry farms.
They suggested bringing every inch of land under crop farming and adopting mixed and inter-cropping methods of crop farming for increasing production of all quality crops, including spicy crops, as those could be cultivated under shadows, homesteads and everywhere.
They also expressed the confidence that the country could definitely achieve self-reliance in food production by using the latest technologies in an integrated and comprehensive manner.
The country has full potential to become self-reliant in food production and it can export its surplus production of quality crops, fruits, vegetables and others to earn foreign exchange instead of importing foodgrains, edible oils and spices in future, they added.
They said this at a meeting on the Farmers' Field Day organised by the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) under the ongoing Integrated Crop Management (ICM) Schooling Programme at Osmanpur Sarderpara in Badarganj Upazila.
The discussion was organised on the occasion of the concluding ceremony of the 20-week training course on ICM Schooling that was participated by 50 male and female farmers of the area on the latest agriculture technologies.
Chaired by Imam of Osmanpur Munshipara Jam-e-Mosque Moulana Zakaria, the meeting was attended by chairman of Bishnupur Union Parishad Asaduzzaman Chowdhury as the chief guest.
Agriculture Extension Officer and ICM Team Leader Shameem Ashraf, Plant Protection Officer Muhammad Iqbal, Upazila Sub- assistant Engineer Ahsan Habib, Sub-assistant Agriculture Officer Salah Uddin Ahmed, Arun Kumar Roy, Kanak Chandra Roy and Muktara Parveen Lipi, among others, addressed the meeting.
Officials and experts of the upazila DAE, local public representatives and participant male and female farmers from all over the area took part in the discussion.
The experts also visited heaps of the compost fertilisers prepared by the participant farmers, pisciculture projects, and exhibition plots of various high-yielding crops farming, Integrated Pests Management plots and tree plantation and animal husbandry farms.
They suggested bringing every inch of land under crop farming and adopting mixed and inter-cropping methods of crop farming for increasing production of all quality crops, including spicy crops, as those could be cultivated under shadows, homesteads and everywhere.