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Farmers achieve record Aman production of the decade in Rangpur Zone
RANGPUR, Dec 20 (BSS) – The farmers have achieved a record production of T- Aman crop this season during the past one decade period everywhere in eight districts under Rangpur Agriculture Zone (RAZ), officials said today.
Additional Director of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Mohsin Ali today told the national news agency that the farmers have already completed the harvest with excellent yield rates of all varieties of the Aman paddy.
“We are conducting now the final calculations and expecting a record bumper production of 30 lakh tonnes clean Aman rice, which is higher by three lakh tonnes than the fixed production target of 27,01,694 tonnes rice this season in the zone,” he said.
The DAE officials and experts said that the farmers had finally cultivated T-Aman paddy on 10,84,863 hectares land, 10,860 hectares more than the fixed target of bringing 10,74,003 hectares under the crop farming in the RAZ this season.
The crop grew well amid an average favorable climatic condition and the government through its various departments and organisations extended all-out supports to the farmers that led to the super bumper Aman production.
Renowned rice scientist with international repute Dr MA Mazid today told BSS that the farmers have gotten excellent Aman yields and already started farming the subsequent Rabi crops with huge enthusiasm everywhere in the region.
“The farmers also cultivated anti-monga short duration and flood tolerant variety Aman paddies on about one lakh hectares land in the area during this Aman season and got superb yields biding a farewell to the seasonal lean period successfully,” he said.
Additional Director of the DAE at Khamarbari informed that there were no reports of pest attacks that further helped the farmers in achieving bumper yields of the Aman paddy in the zone.
The achieved yield rates of hybrid variety Aman stood at 2.95 tonnes clean rice per hectare this time against 2.89 tonnes last year, 2.8 tonnes for high yielding variety against 2.65 tonnes last year and 1.65 tonnes for local variety Aman rice against 1.50 tonnes last year.
The farmers, agri-scientists, officials and experts expressed their satisfactions overt the achieved yield rates and added that they had never observed such a super bumper production of Aman paddy in the zone in the recent pasts.
Farmers Mahmudul Islam, Mushfiqur Rahman, Bhabesh Chandra and many others told that they have excellent yields of Aman paddy this time and have engaged their all- out efforts now to make the Boro farming programme successful.
They expressed their happiness over the present market prices of the newly harvested Aman paddy in between Taka 800 and 900 per maund (every 40 kgs) depending on the varieties and qualities.
