BRRI dhan103, grown at farmer level in Khagrachhari for the first time, has yielded 6.57 tonnes a hectare. The figure came from the harvest and yield measurement at a field day in the Pilotpara technology village in Sadar upazila on Thursday, 5 November.
The variety was grown this aman season on one acre belonging to local farmer Amar Mohan Chakma, supervised by the Khagrachhari regional office of the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI). A project on location-specific rice varieties, technology and laboratory upgrades (LSTD) paid for the work.
Mir Obaydur Rahman Shawon, scientific officer at the BRRI regional office, said the grain is slender and the plant, though fairly tall, does not lodge easily. With proper care and good conditions that yield is possible, he said, and it is encouraging for the aman season. Field demonstrations and yield evaluation will matter in making the variety popular among hill farmers.
Mukta Chakma, the Sadar upazila agriculture officer, said favourable weather had given Khagrachhari a good aman crop this year and that disease was comparatively light on the demonstration plot. Because the plant is tall, the officer added, farmers also gain from extra straw.
With LSTD funding the BRRI office is testing and evaluating high-yielding varieties and technologies on about 50 acres belonging to 50 farmers in the technology village. Farmers have been given free seed, fertiliser, pesticide and drums for storing seed.
This is the result of a first demonstration on one acre. Agricultural officials say that if the variety's yield and suitability are confirmed further and it is grown more widely, it could raise aman output in the hill region. The report originally came from Dhaka Post.
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Source: Agricare24
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