Boro harvesting begins in Brahmanbaria
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Our Correspondent
BRAHMANBARIA, May 10: Harvesting of Boro paddy in eight upazilas of Brahmanbaria has started in full swing. Farmers started it from last week and it will continue till 3rd week of current month. As a result, huge job opportunities have been created for the poorer section people. Farmers are expecting a bumper Boro production during the current season due to favourable climate condition, availability of fertliser, pesticides and seeds, compost fertiliser and smooth water supply. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) assisted and encouraged the farmers to cultivate Boro paddy on their lands for boosting production. A farmer of Sarail Upazila, Md Abdur Rahman, cultivated Boro paddy successfully. DAE officials helped him in this endeavour. Sources at the DAE said, Boro production will cross the target this season. The DAE, Brahmanbaria took up a scheme to bring 111470 hectares of land against the production target of 422478 metric tonnes under Boro cultivation in nine upazilas of the region with an output target of 386800 metric tones. The Upazilawise break-up of cultivation on land target was as follows: Sadar 12980 hectares, Sarail 1600 hectares, Kasba 13040 hectares, Nabinagar 16950 hectares, Bancharampur 9650 hectares, Nasirnagar 18745 hectares, Akhaura 5630 hectares, Ashuganj 5065 hectares and Bijaynagar 13410 hectares. Farmers cultivated paddies of hybrid, Ufsi and local varieties, according to DAE sources. DAE deputy director Md Mozammel Hoque said, "We hope that Boro production target would exceed because of availability of irrigation water and also checking pest attack effectively". Newly harvested Boro rice has already started appearing in the local markets so far and the same is expected to flood the markets within the current month. However, farmers will incur loss due to huge cultivation and production cost and low price of Boro paddy. They are not getting fair price of Boro in the market. Businessmen have started to store new paddy buying it at low price. Meanwhile, crop-cutting ceremonies are being arranged in different parts of the region with participation of local lawmakers, local government representatives, district and Upazila administration and the DAE officials. BKB disburses Tk 53.60 as SME loan Another report adds : The Bangladesh Krishi bank (BKB) Brahmanbaria region has disbursed Tk 53.60 million among the small and medium entrepreneurs during the first nine months of the current financial year aimed at strengthening the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector in nine upazilas of the district. Of the total, Tk 12.76 million has been distributed at Sadar, Tk 7.92 million at Bijaynagar, Tk 0.09 million at Ashuganj, Tk 5.48 million at Sarail, Tk 3.15 million at Nasirnagar, Tk 6.14 million at Akhaura, Tk 4.65 million at Kasba, Tk 3.27 million at Nabinagar, Tk 10.15 million at Bancharampur upazilas through its 26 branches. The bank has been implementing the specialized loan programme for boosting the economic activities in the region through revitalizing the income generating sector. Officials concerned said, the bank has adopted the programme for poverty alleviation and creation of more jobs through establishing small and medium enterprises for economic growth. The main target of the programme is to create an intensive investment scope for the agro-based SME's in the light of the government industrial policy and supplementing the government's efforts to attain food security and economic emancipation. Under the credit programme, BKB has established an easy process for extending necessary credits to small and medium entrepreneurs so that they can contribute a lot to the economic growth side by side with making the region free of poverty. In addition to generating more new talented entrepreneurs, the scheme has been creating more women entrepreneurs through providing them with special facilities so that they could be brought to mainstream of the national economic development activities. Rural unemployed youth, who used to struggle hard, are presently able to mange their families by themselves by taking BKB SME loans. Various business fields especially printing press, light engineering, furniture shop, footwear factory, food processing, poultry, dairy and fish feed, spices powdering, sweetmeat factory, carton factory, tailoring, beaten rice and perched rice producing mill, brickfield, wholesale & retailing shop, spices commodities marketing, drug house, computer training, digital color lab, cable operator, mobile phone accessories, power distribution through generator, food and seed preservation and marketing, hotel and restaurant, software, agro-processing and its business, agriculture plantation, fisheries, health service and diagnostic centres, solar power and education services have been selected for investment. The programme has a provision for sanctioning loan up to Tk 50 million in different potential and prospective fields. BKB deputy general manager and Chief regional manager for Brahmanbaria AF Hossain Ahmed told the Financial Express that the programme had been providing easy credit facilities for the small and medium entrepreneurs as a vital force for poverty alleviation and national economic growth as cherished by the present government. Apart from this, he said, the scheme creates job opportunities together with increasing the flow of loan disbursement and recovery through relationship banking that would assist flourishing talents as the substitute of venture capital in the region.
BRAHMANBARIA, May 10: Harvesting of Boro paddy in eight upazilas of Brahmanbaria has started in full swing. Farmers started it from last week and it will continue till 3rd week of current month. As a result, huge job opportunities have been created for the poorer section people. Farmers are expecting a bumper Boro production during the current season due to favourable climate condition, availability of fertliser, pesticides and seeds, compost fertiliser and smooth water supply. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) assisted and encouraged the farmers to cultivate Boro paddy on their lands for boosting production. A farmer of Sarail Upazila, Md Abdur Rahman, cultivated Boro paddy successfully. DAE officials helped him in this endeavour. Sources at the DAE said, Boro production will cross the target this season. The DAE, Brahmanbaria took up a scheme to bring 111470 hectares of land against the production target of 422478 metric tonnes under Boro cultivation in nine upazilas of the region with an output target of 386800 metric tones. The Upazilawise break-up of cultivation on land target was as follows: Sadar 12980 hectares, Sarail 1600 hectares, Kasba 13040 hectares, Nabinagar 16950 hectares, Bancharampur 9650 hectares, Nasirnagar 18745 hectares, Akhaura 5630 hectares, Ashuganj 5065 hectares and Bijaynagar 13410 hectares. Farmers cultivated paddies of hybrid, Ufsi and local varieties, according to DAE sources. DAE deputy director Md Mozammel Hoque said, "We hope that Boro production target would exceed because of availability of irrigation water and also checking pest attack effectively". Newly harvested Boro rice has already started appearing in the local markets so far and the same is expected to flood the markets within the current month. However, farmers will incur loss due to huge cultivation and production cost and low price of Boro paddy. They are not getting fair price of Boro in the market. Businessmen have started to store new paddy buying it at low price. Meanwhile, crop-cutting ceremonies are being arranged in different parts of the region with participation of local lawmakers, local government representatives, district and Upazila administration and the DAE officials. BKB disburses Tk 53.60 as SME loan Another report adds : The Bangladesh Krishi bank (BKB) Brahmanbaria region has disbursed Tk 53.60 million among the small and medium entrepreneurs during the first nine months of the current financial year aimed at strengthening the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector in nine upazilas of the district. Of the total, Tk 12.76 million has been distributed at Sadar, Tk 7.92 million at Bijaynagar, Tk 0.09 million at Ashuganj, Tk 5.48 million at Sarail, Tk 3.15 million at Nasirnagar, Tk 6.14 million at Akhaura, Tk 4.65 million at Kasba, Tk 3.27 million at Nabinagar, Tk 10.15 million at Bancharampur upazilas through its 26 branches. The bank has been implementing the specialized loan programme for boosting the economic activities in the region through revitalizing the income generating sector. Officials concerned said, the bank has adopted the programme for poverty alleviation and creation of more jobs through establishing small and medium enterprises for economic growth. The main target of the programme is to create an intensive investment scope for the agro-based SME's in the light of the government industrial policy and supplementing the government's efforts to attain food security and economic emancipation. Under the credit programme, BKB has established an easy process for extending necessary credits to small and medium entrepreneurs so that they can contribute a lot to the economic growth side by side with making the region free of poverty. In addition to generating more new talented entrepreneurs, the scheme has been creating more women entrepreneurs through providing them with special facilities so that they could be brought to mainstream of the national economic development activities. Rural unemployed youth, who used to struggle hard, are presently able to mange their families by themselves by taking BKB SME loans. Various business fields especially printing press, light engineering, furniture shop, footwear factory, food processing, poultry, dairy and fish feed, spices powdering, sweetmeat factory, carton factory, tailoring, beaten rice and perched rice producing mill, brickfield, wholesale & retailing shop, spices commodities marketing, drug house, computer training, digital color lab, cable operator, mobile phone accessories, power distribution through generator, food and seed preservation and marketing, hotel and restaurant, software, agro-processing and its business, agriculture plantation, fisheries, health service and diagnostic centres, solar power and education services have been selected for investment. The programme has a provision for sanctioning loan up to Tk 50 million in different potential and prospective fields. BKB deputy general manager and Chief regional manager for Brahmanbaria AF Hossain Ahmed told the Financial Express that the programme had been providing easy credit facilities for the small and medium entrepreneurs as a vital force for poverty alleviation and national economic growth as cherished by the present government. Apart from this, he said, the scheme creates job opportunities together with increasing the flow of loan disbursement and recovery through relationship banking that would assist flourishing talents as the substitute of venture capital in the region.