Prospects for 'mug dal'cultivation in country's N-region bright
Saturday, 21 June 2008
RANGPUR, June 20 (BSS): Research findings of a non- government organisation (NGO) shows bright prospects for expanded cultivation of green gram (mug daal), which will meet the country's demand for pulse side by side with bringing huge profits for the farmers in country's northern region.
Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS) revealed this information here today based on its commendable success in conducting filed-level research on pulses and farming of green gram in the region over the past few years.
RDRS conducted the research jointly with Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agriculture University (BSMRAU), officials said.
While narrating their success, Agriculture Coordinator of RDRS and a PhD student of Jahangir Nagar University M G Neogi told the news agency that green gram could be cultivated in larger scale in only two months everywhere in the country.
Quoting from the research results, he said green gram could be one of the most profitable major cash crops especially in the Monga-prone greater Rangpur and Dinajpur districts as its cultivation is more profitable than that of other crops.
"Over 70 per cent of the total cultivable lands having better dewatering facilities are fit for cultivating the green gram," Neogi said adding, the farmers after harvesting potato can sow green gram seeds in the same land by March and get the crop within only 60 days.
He also said that the farmers could cultivate T-Aman paddy in the same land in June/July by adopting the 'Aman-Potato-Gram rely-method cropping pattern.'
According to the RDRS research findings, green gram farming needs no chemical fertiliser. Besides, the land regains its lost fertility when the green gram plants are mixed with the soil after its harvests to help the increased production of subsequent crops.
Neogi said 52 farmers of greater Rangpur district cultivated green gram last year on experimental basis with the help of BARI, BSMRAU and RDRS and achieved excellent yields encouraging them to go for more production of the pulse.
As many as 924 farmers of 28 upazilas in greater Rangpur and Dinajpur districts successfully cultivated BARI Mug-6 and BU Mug-4 varieties of green gram on 308 acres of land under RDRS assistances and harvested the crop by May this years.
"The farmers got an average yield rate of 450 kg per acre earning a net profit of Tk 27,000 per acre against Tk 9,000 per acre production cost," Neogi said and observed that large scale cultivation of green gram could substantially help the poor and the marginal farmers in the northern region.
Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS) revealed this information here today based on its commendable success in conducting filed-level research on pulses and farming of green gram in the region over the past few years.
RDRS conducted the research jointly with Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agriculture University (BSMRAU), officials said.
While narrating their success, Agriculture Coordinator of RDRS and a PhD student of Jahangir Nagar University M G Neogi told the news agency that green gram could be cultivated in larger scale in only two months everywhere in the country.
Quoting from the research results, he said green gram could be one of the most profitable major cash crops especially in the Monga-prone greater Rangpur and Dinajpur districts as its cultivation is more profitable than that of other crops.
"Over 70 per cent of the total cultivable lands having better dewatering facilities are fit for cultivating the green gram," Neogi said adding, the farmers after harvesting potato can sow green gram seeds in the same land by March and get the crop within only 60 days.
He also said that the farmers could cultivate T-Aman paddy in the same land in June/July by adopting the 'Aman-Potato-Gram rely-method cropping pattern.'
According to the RDRS research findings, green gram farming needs no chemical fertiliser. Besides, the land regains its lost fertility when the green gram plants are mixed with the soil after its harvests to help the increased production of subsequent crops.
Neogi said 52 farmers of greater Rangpur district cultivated green gram last year on experimental basis with the help of BARI, BSMRAU and RDRS and achieved excellent yields encouraging them to go for more production of the pulse.
As many as 924 farmers of 28 upazilas in greater Rangpur and Dinajpur districts successfully cultivated BARI Mug-6 and BU Mug-4 varieties of green gram on 308 acres of land under RDRS assistances and harvested the crop by May this years.
"The farmers got an average yield rate of 450 kg per acre earning a net profit of Tk 27,000 per acre against Tk 9,000 per acre production cost," Neogi said and observed that large scale cultivation of green gram could substantially help the poor and the marginal farmers in the northern region.