Short duration paddy containing Monga
Thursday, 11 November 2010
RANGPUR, Nov 10 (BSS): Harvest of the short duration anti- monga variety paddies would combat the seasonal Monga in Rangpur division this year, agri-experts, scientists and officials said.
The harvest continued throughout the peak monga hours during Aswin and Kartik months creating working opportunities for over 1.10 million farm and day-labourers in the area.
The poorer section of people did not experience Monga-bite this time due to the government's special initiatives taken for large-scale and successful farming of these short duration paddies side by side with the massive social safety programmes.
Because of all these efforts, the jobless farm and day- labourers and distressed people including women have been successfully tackling the monga situation getting adequate jobs in the crop fields this time.
At the same time, harvest of the early variety traditional T-Aman paddy also started almost everywhere in Rangpur Agriculture Zone creating more job opportunities as the peak Monga hour ends by next week.
Under special government initiatives and govt-NGO collaboration, the farmers went to expanded farming of these paddies and successfully faced monga, renowned rice scientist Dr MA Mazid of CSISA Project said.
The DAE officials said that the farmers completed harvest of BRRI Dhan 33 cultivated in all 45,784 hectares of land, BRRI Dhan 39 in 12,955 hectares, BINA dhan 7 in 32,269 hectares, BU dhan 1 in 223 hectares and IT 64 sub 1 in all 47 hectares of land in the area.
Besides, the farmers completed harvest on another 6,000 hectares of land cultivated with the assistance of the NGOs and research organisations and hybrid variety Aloron, Jagoron and Sonar Bangla paddies on 12,694 hectares of land in the area.
The yield rates in terms of clean rice stood at 2.39 tonnes per hectare for BRRI Dhan 33, 2.3 tonnes for BRRI Dhan 39, 2.75 tonnes for BINA Dhan 7, 2.3 tonnes for BU Dhan 1 and 2.74 tonnes for the hybrid varieties; DAE expert Mezbahul Islam informed the news agency.
The harvest continued throughout the peak monga hours during Aswin and Kartik months creating working opportunities for over 1.10 million farm and day-labourers in the area.
The poorer section of people did not experience Monga-bite this time due to the government's special initiatives taken for large-scale and successful farming of these short duration paddies side by side with the massive social safety programmes.
Because of all these efforts, the jobless farm and day- labourers and distressed people including women have been successfully tackling the monga situation getting adequate jobs in the crop fields this time.
At the same time, harvest of the early variety traditional T-Aman paddy also started almost everywhere in Rangpur Agriculture Zone creating more job opportunities as the peak Monga hour ends by next week.
Under special government initiatives and govt-NGO collaboration, the farmers went to expanded farming of these paddies and successfully faced monga, renowned rice scientist Dr MA Mazid of CSISA Project said.
The DAE officials said that the farmers completed harvest of BRRI Dhan 33 cultivated in all 45,784 hectares of land, BRRI Dhan 39 in 12,955 hectares, BINA dhan 7 in 32,269 hectares, BU dhan 1 in 223 hectares and IT 64 sub 1 in all 47 hectares of land in the area.
Besides, the farmers completed harvest on another 6,000 hectares of land cultivated with the assistance of the NGOs and research organisations and hybrid variety Aloron, Jagoron and Sonar Bangla paddies on 12,694 hectares of land in the area.
The yield rates in terms of clean rice stood at 2.39 tonnes per hectare for BRRI Dhan 33, 2.3 tonnes for BRRI Dhan 39, 2.75 tonnes for BINA Dhan 7, 2.3 tonnes for BU Dhan 1 and 2.74 tonnes for the hybrid varieties; DAE expert Mezbahul Islam informed the news agency.