Experts’ stress on ribbon retting to rot jute plants

RANGPUR, Aug 8 (BSS): Speakers at the 'farmers' field day' have said that the lowest-cost and easiest ribbon retting technology helps in rotting jute plants amid water scarcity and droughts to get upgraded quality of the fibre with increased yield rate.
They asked the farmers for the large-scale adoption of the lowest-cost technology that might be crucial in future following the adverse impacts of ongoing climate change that continues affecting the agriculture sector creating water scarcity for rotting jute plants like the prevailing drought situation now in Rangpur region. They were addressing the 'farmers' field day' arranged recently at the Gangachara upazila parishad premises for distribution of ribboners, polythene sheets and wooden hammers among 50 farmers and to exhibit the ribbon retting technology.
Gangachara Upazila Jute Department under the 'High Yielding Jute and Jute Seed Production and Improved Jute Retting Project' of the Ministry of Jute and Textiles organised the event.