Farmers urged to cultivate Brridhan-62

RAJSHAHI, July 9 (BSS):  Agricultural researchers and extension officials have urged the farmers to bring more land under Brridhan-62 in the vast Barind tract during the forthcoming transplanted Aman season.

Brridhan-62 is a zinc-enriched and drought-tolerant paddy variety,

They told the grassroots farmers that the newly innovated paddy variety has opened up a door of enormous prospects of mitigating zinc and protein deficiency besides fighting diarrhoea and pneumonia-induced childhood deaths and stunting.

Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) released the variety all over the country last year after a breakthrough in research in the field. It's a short-duration high-yielding variety of rice which could be cultivated in Aman season.

They made these observations while distributing 148 kilograms of Brridhan-62 seeds among 37 farmers simultaneously at offices of Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) of Tanore, Godagari and Nachole yesterday.