7.42 lakh tonnes of Aush rice produced in Rajshahi 7.42 lakh tonnes of Aush rice produced in Rajshahi News Desk
Despite facing the adverse impact of the
Covid-19 pandemic and flood situation, the
farmers have harvested around 7.42 lakh
tonnes of Aush rice as its harvesting
process recently ended in all eight
districts under Rajshahi division.
The farmers produced the rice from 2.44
lakh hectares of land in the division.
Standing aush paddy on 9,411 hectares of
land was affected by the flood water in
its couple of phases in the division, said
officials of the Department of Agriculture
Extension (DAE).
The DAE had set a target of producing
around 7.49 lakh tonnes of Aush rice from
2.53 lakh hectares of land in the
division.
But, the farmers cultivated the paddy on
around 2.54 lakh hectares of land.
Identically, the farmers have brought
1,739 hectares more land under the paddy
farming compared to the target set by the
DAE.
Sudhendra Nath Roy, Additional Director of
DAE, Rajshahi, said the government has
adopted diversified steps including
incentives and technological support to
promote aush rice farming.He said the
agricultural incentives and other supports
are very important towards boosting aush
paddy production.
The government has provided incentives to
56,265 small and marginalized farming
families to encourage them towards aush
farming in the division. Each of them was
given five kilograms of high yielding
seeds, 20 kilograms of diammonium
phosphate and ten kilograms of muriate of
potash fertilizers.
Apart from this, another 10,900 farmers
were given 54,500 kilograms of high
yielding seeds to attain the aush
production target. Each of the beneficiary
farmers was given five kilograms seeds.
Meanwhile, the aush farmers are very much
happy after getting bumper paddy yield
besides its expected market price and
availing the scopes of spot selling of the
newly harvested paddy.
Proshen Ekka, 45, a farmer of Ganigram
village under Godagari Upazila of Rajshahi
district, harvested 18 mounds of paddy
from his one bigha of land of Brridhan-82
and sold at Taka 950 per mound on an
average.
Suresh Minji, 53, harvested 36 mounds from
his two bighas of land of the same variety
at the same area.
He said the BRRIdhan-48 has become an icon
of boosting paddy production in the region
including its vast Barind tract during the
last couple of years and Brri Dhan 82 has
started gaining popularity with equal
yield.
By virtue of early harvesting
characteristics, the variety supplements
the farming of transplanted Aman and
various Rabi crops like tomato, brinjal,
mustard and vegetables as the region is
conventionally famous for farming these
crops abundantly.
On the other hand, aman paddy
transplantation has exceeded the target in
Rajshahi division despite the present
adverse situation induced by both the
Covid-19 pandemic and the flood creating
scopes of producing additional yield of
the food grain.
The DAE has set the target of producing
around 22.19 lakh tonnes of aman rice from
around 7.66 lakh hectares of land in all
eight districts of the division during the
current season.
But, amazingly, the enthusiastic farmers
have brought more than 7.77 lakh hectares
of land exceeding the target by 11,540
hectares braving the current pandemic and
disastrous situations.
The target has been exceeded as the
farmers are seen humming towards more
paddy farming side by side with suitable
climate conditions with frequent rainfall.
Particularly, the farmers are now very
much pleased with the present lucrative
market price for the latest harvested Aush
and Boro paddy and rice in the entire
region including its vast Barind tract.
After getting the profitable price of
their paddy they are seen bustling with
farming of transplanted aman paddy with
more attention.
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