Farmers, agriculturists eye bumper wheat production in Rajshahi
Sunday, 8 January 2012
RAJSHAHI, Jan 7 (BSS): Agriculturists, farmers and others concerned are very much hopeful about the current season's wheat production in the region including its vast Barind tract due to the prevailing favorable climatic condition especially cold.
Timely plantation of seeds accompanied by the current cold spell everywhere in the region, which is being adjudged as a positive sign for attaining bumper production of the cash crop, said Dr Israil Hossain, Principal Scientific Officer of Regional Wheat Research Station.
He said the farmers of the Barind area were found encouraged in wheat farming on more lands due to the water-stress condition as wheat always a less- water consuming plant.
Wheat Research Center had so far released 24 varieties of wheat for commercial cultivation. The recently released six varieties including prodip, bijoy, shatabdi and BARIGAM-26 are more tolerant to leaf blight and leaf rushdisease with additional
advantage of higher yield, Dr Israil mentioned.
"We have developed projection plots on around 12 hectares of farmers' field in Barind area for boosting seed production of the latest varieties during the current season besides various other motivational campaigns and training programs," he added.
In this context, he recommended development and dissemination of appropriate farm machinery like power tiller operated seeder, strip till and zero till, bed planter, reaper
and thresher to enhance the wheat production.
Meanwhile, farmers have brought around 1.24 lakh hectares of land under wheat cultivation in eight districts of the region.
Saidur Rahman, Additional Director of Department of Agriculture Extension, said wide-ranging promotion of the newly innovated variety could help increase wheat yield pointing out that substantial wheat production in the country has become
indispensable to reduce the dependence on import to meet the internal demand.
So, he opined that there is no alternative to promoting modern technology and using high yielding wheat seeds to attain the cherished goal.
He viewed that sustainable wheat production was a must for ensuring food security as it was the second most important cereal in the country after rice and plays a vital role in the national food security.
Dr Ilias Hossain, Senior Scientific Officer of Regional Wheat Research Station, said wheat consumption was gradually increasing but its production had become static due to various reasons.
Timely plantation of seeds accompanied by the current cold spell everywhere in the region, which is being adjudged as a positive sign for attaining bumper production of the cash crop, said Dr Israil Hossain, Principal Scientific Officer of Regional Wheat Research Station.
He said the farmers of the Barind area were found encouraged in wheat farming on more lands due to the water-stress condition as wheat always a less- water consuming plant.
Wheat Research Center had so far released 24 varieties of wheat for commercial cultivation. The recently released six varieties including prodip, bijoy, shatabdi and BARIGAM-26 are more tolerant to leaf blight and leaf rushdisease with additional
advantage of higher yield, Dr Israil mentioned.
"We have developed projection plots on around 12 hectares of farmers' field in Barind area for boosting seed production of the latest varieties during the current season besides various other motivational campaigns and training programs," he added.
In this context, he recommended development and dissemination of appropriate farm machinery like power tiller operated seeder, strip till and zero till, bed planter, reaper
and thresher to enhance the wheat production.
Meanwhile, farmers have brought around 1.24 lakh hectares of land under wheat cultivation in eight districts of the region.
Saidur Rahman, Additional Director of Department of Agriculture Extension, said wide-ranging promotion of the newly innovated variety could help increase wheat yield pointing out that substantial wheat production in the country has become
indispensable to reduce the dependence on import to meet the internal demand.
So, he opined that there is no alternative to promoting modern technology and using high yielding wheat seeds to attain the cherished goal.
He viewed that sustainable wheat production was a must for ensuring food security as it was the second most important cereal in the country after rice and plays a vital role in the national food security.
Dr Ilias Hossain, Senior Scientific Officer of Regional Wheat Research Station, said wheat consumption was gradually increasing but its production had become static due to various reasons.