Mustard production may exceed target in Joypurhat

JOYPURHAT, Jan 25 (BSS): Eye catching blooming mustard covers vast tracts of land in the district as DAE is expected to exceed production target in the current season.
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources said cultivation is gradually increasing every year as farmers got good production and fair prices of their products in last two years.
A total of 10,700 hectares of land have been brought under mustard cultivation in five upazilas of the district with the production target of 13,000 tonnes. Last year the farmers got 1.5 tonnes of mustard from each hectare but this year they expect to get 1.65 tonnes of yield per hectare due to favourable weather prevailing across the district.
"Last year I cultivated mustard on one bigha of land but this season I have cultivated it on 2.5 bighas with prospect of good production and market prices this year," said Abdus Sattar, a farmer of Kusishor village under sadar upazila.
The cultivated mustard includes Tori-7, BARI-9, BARI-14, and BARI-15 varieties, of them Tori-7 alone covers 80 percent of the cultivated areas, DAE sources said.
The cultivation of the crop started during mid- November and the harvest will continue till second week of February.