Land management a must for agricultural dev
Monday, 19 July 2010
RAJSHAHI, July 18 (BSS): Speakers at a regional workshop called for ensuring sustainable land management for keeping the environment friendly and natural along with proper use and management of land property and integration with all entities of the nature.
They said that sustainable land management had become indispensable for sustainable agricultural development to maintain food security of the nation.
The workshop on 'Sustainable Land Management (SLM) for Agricultural Development' was organised by Agriculture Information Service (AIS) at the conference hall of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Sunday.
AIS Director Nazrul Islam addressed the session as chief guest while deputy director of DAE Anwarul Azim as special guest.
Deputy director (Mass Communication) of AIS Khorshed Zafri presided over the function while AIS Farm Broadcasting Officer Dr Zahangir Alam was the key note speaker.
The speakers said that the SLM should be maintained for less investment and maximum benefit for livelihood development and maximum production with better protection to prevent any natural hazards and calamity and to risk minimization.
They recommended adopting integrated participatory watershed management approach for holistic development of rain fed and wetland areas for sustainable productivity.
Besides, they underscored the need for alternate land use or agro- forestry systems for productive utilization of degraded wetlands side by side with integrated and balanced nutrient use management to achieve higher partial and total factor productivity.
Mr Alam said various degradations like soil and water resources, vegetation, abnormal decline of surface and groundwater resources and climatic deterioration had been detected as the major components of land degradation.
To handle the degradable factors he said emphasis should be given to wide-ranging growing of leguminous cover crops and their incorporation in the soil along with adoption of soil conservation measures.
Apart from this, he said promotion of biological biodiversity and checking soil and water pollution by heavy metal or toxic substances along with conservation tillage utilising crop residues could be the effective means of sustainable land management.
He also said that the fertile and cultivable lands must be protected from industrialisation and urbanisation for future food security.
He put forward a set of recommendations which included proper and immediate land policy with timely land reformation, soil and land preservation and improvement, economic crop zoning, proper guideline for judicious chemical use and land use registration legislation.
District livestock officers Khairul Alam and Azizul Islam, principal scientific officer of Wheat Research Station Dr Israil Hossain, deputy director of Ansar-VDP Shah Alam, scientific officer of Soil Resource Development Institution Nurul Islam and horticulturist Monzurul Huda took part in the discussion.
They said that sustainable land management had become indispensable for sustainable agricultural development to maintain food security of the nation.
The workshop on 'Sustainable Land Management (SLM) for Agricultural Development' was organised by Agriculture Information Service (AIS) at the conference hall of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Sunday.
AIS Director Nazrul Islam addressed the session as chief guest while deputy director of DAE Anwarul Azim as special guest.
Deputy director (Mass Communication) of AIS Khorshed Zafri presided over the function while AIS Farm Broadcasting Officer Dr Zahangir Alam was the key note speaker.
The speakers said that the SLM should be maintained for less investment and maximum benefit for livelihood development and maximum production with better protection to prevent any natural hazards and calamity and to risk minimization.
They recommended adopting integrated participatory watershed management approach for holistic development of rain fed and wetland areas for sustainable productivity.
Besides, they underscored the need for alternate land use or agro- forestry systems for productive utilization of degraded wetlands side by side with integrated and balanced nutrient use management to achieve higher partial and total factor productivity.
Mr Alam said various degradations like soil and water resources, vegetation, abnormal decline of surface and groundwater resources and climatic deterioration had been detected as the major components of land degradation.
To handle the degradable factors he said emphasis should be given to wide-ranging growing of leguminous cover crops and their incorporation in the soil along with adoption of soil conservation measures.
Apart from this, he said promotion of biological biodiversity and checking soil and water pollution by heavy metal or toxic substances along with conservation tillage utilising crop residues could be the effective means of sustainable land management.
He also said that the fertile and cultivable lands must be protected from industrialisation and urbanisation for future food security.
He put forward a set of recommendations which included proper and immediate land policy with timely land reformation, soil and land preservation and improvement, economic crop zoning, proper guideline for judicious chemical use and land use registration legislation.
District livestock officers Khairul Alam and Azizul Islam, principal scientific officer of Wheat Research Station Dr Israil Hossain, deputy director of Ansar-VDP Shah Alam, scientific officer of Soil Resource Development Institution Nurul Islam and horticulturist Monzurul Huda took part in the discussion.