Boro cultivation may fall due to shortage of seedlings
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Our Correspondent
NILPHAMARI, Jan 26: Boro cultivation in the district likely to suffer setback due to acute shortage of seedlings for plantation.
Thousands of Boro growers in the district are passing their days in anxiety as the seedlings contacted virus, lost natural growth and turned yellow.
The disease has already affected more than 50 per cent Boro seedlings.
In this season, Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has set the target of Boro cultivation of hybrid in 31,579 hectares of land to produce 151,263 tonnes of paddy and also high yielding variety (HYV) in 48,456 hectares of land to produce 182,556 tonnes of paddy.
DAE block supervisors advised Boro farmers to irrigate the land in the evening and drainout the water in the morning to keep the Boro seedlings alive.
Meanwhile, the government initiative to employ Monga region's hardcore poor people abroad proved to be a failure.
In 2009, there was a quota to send 18,000 ultra poor people of greater Rangpur abroad but only a few people were sent.
On May 18, 2008, Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) and Polli Kormo Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), under which PKSF would provide loans to poorest youths of the region for overseas employment.
It was also resolved that the recruiting agents would send 4.0 per cent poor persons of their total demand from the region, and BMET would provide necessary training to them.
The main cause of failure of the venture was due to non-acceptance of the recruiting agents the amount of per head expatriate expenditure offered by the government.
People of the region demanded restoration of the facilities for them soon.
NILPHAMARI, Jan 26: Boro cultivation in the district likely to suffer setback due to acute shortage of seedlings for plantation.
Thousands of Boro growers in the district are passing their days in anxiety as the seedlings contacted virus, lost natural growth and turned yellow.
The disease has already affected more than 50 per cent Boro seedlings.
In this season, Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has set the target of Boro cultivation of hybrid in 31,579 hectares of land to produce 151,263 tonnes of paddy and also high yielding variety (HYV) in 48,456 hectares of land to produce 182,556 tonnes of paddy.
DAE block supervisors advised Boro farmers to irrigate the land in the evening and drainout the water in the morning to keep the Boro seedlings alive.
Meanwhile, the government initiative to employ Monga region's hardcore poor people abroad proved to be a failure.
In 2009, there was a quota to send 18,000 ultra poor people of greater Rangpur abroad but only a few people were sent.
On May 18, 2008, Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) and Polli Kormo Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), under which PKSF would provide loans to poorest youths of the region for overseas employment.
It was also resolved that the recruiting agents would send 4.0 per cent poor persons of their total demand from the region, and BMET would provide necessary training to them.
The main cause of failure of the venture was due to non-acceptance of the recruiting agents the amount of per head expatriate expenditure offered by the government.
People of the region demanded restoration of the facilities for them soon.