Bumper Boro yield delights Khulna farmers

KHULNA, Apr 16 (BSS): Enthusiastic farmers are expecting a bumper Boro paddy production after exceeding the fixed farming target in Khulna agriculture region during the current season.
Farmers and officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) said, "The tender Boro paddy plants have been growing marvelously even a few days ago creating a sight beholding greener look in crop fields amid favourable climatic conditions".
Getting necessary support from the government to make the intensive Boro rice farming programme a success, farmers have brought more land under its farming exceeding the fixed farming target despite crop diversification across the region.
Farmers, in all the four districts of the region, are extremely busy cutting their Boro paddy. Cutting of Boro paddy, over 2,000 hectares of land, has been completed, said a DAE official.
The DAE has fixed a target of producing 10, 85,918 tonnes of Boro paddy (Average 4.51 tonnes of paddy in per hectare) from 2, 40,780 hectares of land for all four districts under Khulna agriculture region during the current Rabi season.
"Farmers have finally brought 2,48,592 hectares of land under Boro farming exceeding the fixed farming target by 8,112 hectares of land," Additional Director of the DAE's Khulna region Agriculturist Md. Fazlul Haque said.
"We get a super bumper Boro paddy production as a climatic condition was favourable across the region," he said.
The DAE and other agriculture-related organisations and institutions have been working relentlessly to ensure smooth irrigation, supply of fuels, fertilisers and electricity and other facilities to farmers for making the Boro farming programme a success.
Talking to the news agency, farmers Md Abul Kalam of Shirgati village under Rupsha upazila and Angshuman Roy of Debitala village under Batiaghata upazila in Khulna said they have put maximum efforts to take care of their growing Boro paddy plants to get bumper production this season.
Farmer Saikat Alam Sohag of Paikgachha upazila in Khulna thanked the government for ensuring smooth supply of fertilisers, pesticides, diesel, power and other facilities to the farmers to make their Boro farming programme a success.