6 lakh tonnes of Aush rice produced

Farmers have harvested around 6.07 lakh tonnes of Aush rice from around 2.03 lakh hectares of land as its harvesting process recently ended in all eight districts under Rajshahi division.

The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) had set a target of producing around 6.43 lakh tonnes of Aush rice from 2.45 lakh hectares of land in the division.

Sirajul Islam, Additional Director of DAE, Rajshahi, said the government had adopted diversified steps including incentives and technological support to promote the rice farming. He said the agricultural incentives and other supports are very important towards boosting the Aush paddy production.

Agriculturist Islam said a total of 69,300 small and marginal farmers received seed and fertilisers as incentives worth around Tk 6.07 crore for the cultivation of Aush paddy in the current Kharif-1 season in the division.

The beneficiary farmers were given five kilograms of high yielding seed, 20 kilograms of diammonium phosphate and 10 kilograms of potash fertilisers for the paddy cultivation on one bigha of land each free of cost under the government’s agricultural incentive programme.

He also said the Aush farming is very much cost effective as it requires less production cost and faces less natural calamity.