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Bumper output of summer vegetable expected

BSS . Rangpur
14 May 2022 00:00:00 | Update: 14 May 2022 00:55:59
Bumper output of summer vegetable expected

Farmers are expecting a bumper output of summer vegetables as its farming continues alongside harvest of early varieties during this Kharif-1 season in Rangpur agriculture region.

“Early varieties of summer vegetables have already appeared in ample quantities in the local markets with excellent prices making farmers happy,” Additional Director of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) for Rangpur region Agriculturist Md Emdad Hossain Sheikh said.

The DAE has fixed a target of producing 5,94,380 tonnes of summer vegetables from 31,395 hectares of land for all five districts in the region during the current Kharif-1 season.

Farmers have so far cultivated summer vegetables on 25,040 hectares of land or 79.76 percent against the targeted land area by Thursday as the farming process still continues across the region. “After getting repeated bumper productions with lucrative prices, farmers are cultivating vegetables on more land areas and many of them have achieved self-reliance,” Hossain said.

Deputy Director of the DAE for Rangpur Agriculturist Md Obaidur Rahman Mandal said most varieties of summer vegetables have already appeared in local markets following cultivation of early varieties adopting newer cropping patterns.

The DAE, Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute and other organisations are providing seeds and technologies to farmers to make the intensive summer vegetable cultivation program a success.

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