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Cultivation of transplanted Aman (T-Aman) paddy, one of the high-value crops, in Jamalpur has been progressing fast as the farmers planted around 87 per cent of land among the total target in this current Kharif-2 season.
Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) office said a total of 1,09,700 hectares of land have been brought under cultivation during the current Aman season. Among the target, farmers of the district have already cultivated the paddy on 95,160 hectares of land till Friday.
The farmers planted high yielding variety (HYV) on 67,500 hectares of land against the target of 75,000 hectares, high breed variety on 26,250 hectares against the target of 21,800 hectares and the local variety on 1,410 hectares against the target of 12,900 hectares of land.
Deputy Director of the DAE Zakia Sultana said farmers are drifting to cultivate high breed variety paddy as of its short duration life cycle and more production. After harvesting high breed variety paddy, farmers can cultivate mustard on the same land, she added.
“Farmers have sufficient seed beds to complete the cultivation,” the DD said, adding that they have prepared T-Aman seed beds on 5,671 hectares of land which is 188 hectares more than the target.
The DAE has fixed a target of T-Aman cultivation on 31,472 hectares of land with a production target of 88,554 tonnes in Jamalpur Sadar upazila, 15,203 hectares of land with a production target of 42,842 tonnes in Sarishabari, 16,580 hectares of land with a production target of 47,726 tonnes in Melandah, 9,740 hectares of land with a production target 24,316 tonnes in Islampur, 8,555 hectares of land with a production target of 20,877 tonnes in Dewanganj, 15,090 hectares of land with a production target of 43,303 tonnes in Madarganj and 12,790 hectares of land with a production target of 41,676 tonnes in Bakshiganj upazila of the district.
Zakia Sultana said most of the farmers are cultivating their lands by irrigation due to a lack of sufficient rainfall.
This year, the cultivation target of T-Aman was fixed on 1,09,700 hectares of land with a production target of 3,09,294 tonnes of rice in seven upazilas of the district, she added.
