Boro farming target exceeds in Khulna region

The Boro paddy farming has exceeded the target by 102 per cent bringing additional 5,810 hectares of land under cultivation in the current season in Khulna Agriculture Region.

During the fiscal year 2022-23, the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) had set a plantation target of 2.50-lakh hectares of land which is exceeded by 2.56-lakh hectares of land and the production target of 10.88-lakh tonnes of clean Boro exceeded by 11.14-lakh tonnes, said DAE Deputy Director Md Hafizur Rahman said.

In Khulna, farmers cultivated 2.80-lakh clean Boro paddy on 63,790 hectares of land where the fixed target was 62,800 hectares of land, exceeded by 101.58 per cent of the fixed farming target.

In Bagerhat, farmers cultivated 2.75-lakh clean Boro paddy on 62,169 hectares of land where the fixed target was 59,650 hectares of land, exceeded by 104.22 per cent of the fixed farming target.

In Satkhira, farmers cultivated 3.12-lakh clean Boro paddy on 79,526 hectares of land where the fixed target was 77,250 hectares of land, exceeded by 102.95 per cent of the fixed farming target.

In Narail, farmers cultivated 2.21-lakh clean Boro paddy on 50,025 hectares of land where the fixed target was 50,000 hectares of land, exceeded by 100.05 per cent of the fixed farming target.

Due to proper rain during the seedling’s transplantation period in the Khulna region, farmers could able to exceed the cultivation target, said an agriculture officer Subir Kumar Biswas of Kalia upazila under Narail district.

In the current fiscal year, 16,500 hectares of Boro paddy cultivation in Kalia upazila have been fulfilled. Now, at every block level systematic application of pesticides, fungicides, and fertilisers have been used properly. If the weather is favourable from all sides, we will be able to exceed the target of production. Technical assistance and continuous supervision of the farmers at the field level are ongoing in a proper way, he added.