CA technology boosts crop production, say experts

FE Team | Published: April 11, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

RANGPUR, Apr 10 (BSS): Agriculture experts at an experience-sharing field visit has stressed for adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) technologies to increase crop production at reduces costs amid adverse impacts of climate change.
RDRS Bangladesh organised the visit in Mohanpur union under Birganj upazila of Dinajpur on Thursday for farmers to share their field level experiences on CA-based technologies while cultivation of wheat, rice and maize with other crops in relay-method.
The field visit was organised for demonstrating the CA-based technologies to inspire the farmers for mechanisation of agriculture under its Sustainable & Resilient Farming System Intensification (SRFSI) Project to enhance cereal crop production.
The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) has been extending financial assistance and International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) technical cooperation in implementing the project.
Senior Scientific Officer of Dinajpur Wheat Research Centre of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) Dr Md Akbar Hossain attended the occasion as the chief guest with Project coordinator of SRFSI Project of RDRS Bangladesh Rashedul Islam in the chair,
Senior Scientific Officer of the On-farm Research Division of Rangpur Regional Station of BARI Mohammad Ali Mandal, Senior Agriculture Officer of the SRFSI Project Anup Kumar Ghosh, its Filed Assistant Raju Chandra Das were present.
The local farmers of Mohanpur union, local service providers, six farmers and an operator of the power tiller operated seeder machine from Barodorga union in Rangpur, public representatives, local community leaders and were preset.
The farmers narrated as how they have cultivated wheat, maize and rice adopting the latest CA-based technologies like bed planting, strip tillage and reduced tillage methods using two-wheel power tiller operated seeder machines and bed planters.