Rangpur farmers reaping benefits of early summer vegetables

Farmers are very happy getting excellent yields and rewarding prices of early varieties of summer vegetables as the farming of its late varieties continues during the current Kharif-1 season in Rangpur agriculture region.

“Meanwhile, early varieties of summer vegetables have already appeared in local markets with excellent prices making farmers happy across the region,” said the Additional Director of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) for Rangpur region Md Aftab Hossain.

The DAE has fixed a target of producing 4,94,873 tonnes of summer vegetables from 28,605 hectares of land for all five districts in the region during the current Kharif-1 season.

Farmers have so far cultivated summer vegetables on 11,645 hectares of land or 40.71 per cent of the targeted land area by Wednesday as the farming process continues in full swing across the region.

“After getting repeated bumper productions with lucrative prices, farmers are expanding cultivation of vegetables on more land areas in all seasons round the year and many of them have achieved self-reliance in recent years in the region,” Hossain added.

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

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