Massive target of producing 1.44m tons onion fixed
Monday, 29 November 2010
RANGPUR, Nov 28 (BSS): The government has fixed a massive target of producing 1.44 million tonnes of onion from 1,60,000 hectares land in the country during the current Robi season, officials and experts said Sunday.
Of them, 84,528 tonnes onion will be produced from 9,392 hectares land in all eight districts under Rangpur Agriculture Zone (RAZ) and the farmers have already started farming of the essential spicy crop.
DAE has fixed a yield rate of 9 tonnes onion per hectare this season on an average throughout the country.
The DAE, BARI, BADC, commercial banks and Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) and a large number of NGOs have taken adequate steps to make the onion-farming programme successful this season.
The steps include distribution of quality seeds, disbursements of easy-term agri-loans at 2 per cent interest rates, providing trainings, technical assistances and inputs under the various programmes.
Onion import would be reduced in future, as its production would continue increasing due to the new impetuous being given to the sector and the crop is being cultivated twice a year in place of only once during the winter in the past, the experts said.
Onion will be cultivated on 1,672 hectares of land in Rangpur, 1,527 in Gaibandha, 456 in Lalmonirhat, 1,456 in Nilphamari, 640 in Kurigram, 2,154 in Dinajpur, 557 in Thakurgaon and 930 hectares in Panchagarh districts under the RAZ this season.
Of them, 84,528 tonnes onion will be produced from 9,392 hectares land in all eight districts under Rangpur Agriculture Zone (RAZ) and the farmers have already started farming of the essential spicy crop.
DAE has fixed a yield rate of 9 tonnes onion per hectare this season on an average throughout the country.
The DAE, BARI, BADC, commercial banks and Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) and a large number of NGOs have taken adequate steps to make the onion-farming programme successful this season.
The steps include distribution of quality seeds, disbursements of easy-term agri-loans at 2 per cent interest rates, providing trainings, technical assistances and inputs under the various programmes.
Onion import would be reduced in future, as its production would continue increasing due to the new impetuous being given to the sector and the crop is being cultivated twice a year in place of only once during the winter in the past, the experts said.
Onion will be cultivated on 1,672 hectares of land in Rangpur, 1,527 in Gaibandha, 456 in Lalmonirhat, 1,456 in Nilphamari, 640 in Kurigram, 2,154 in Dinajpur, 557 in Thakurgaon and 930 hectares in Panchagarh districts under the RAZ this season.