Sixty men and women farmers in Charbhadrasan, Faridpur, received a day of training on Wednesday (14 October) under the project to spread modern agricultural technology in Bangladesh's char areas. The Department of Agricultural Extension in Charbhadrasan organised it at the upazila farmers' training centre.
The session covered raising cropping intensity and output on the chars, growing improved varieties and managing soil. Farmers were taught off-season watermelon under mulch, pesticide-free vegetables in polyhouses, the sandbar method of growing vegetables, raising seedlings in trays and making vermicompost, as well as ways to grow fruit and vegetables around the homestead all year.
Pest control had its own slot: managing the brinjal shoot and fruit borer, fruit flies on gourds, jackfruit pests and leaf miners, and integrated pest management.
Improved varieties and growing methods were presented for sugarcane, jute, sweet potato, pulses, mustard, soybean, sunflower, groundnut, malta, guava and watermelon, among other crops.
The trainers were Mohammad Khayer Uddin Molla, additional director of the extension department's Faridpur region; Abul Hossain Mia, additional deputy director (plant protection) in Faridpur; Charbhadrasan upazila agriculture officer Imran Bin Islam; additional agriculture officer Sanjida Sultana; and Asadullah of the Agricultural Information Service.
The session closed with a call to work together to spread modern technology on the chars, raise crop output and improve farmers' lives. Participants came from across the upazila. Agricare24 carried the report from the Agricultural Information Service, Barishal.
Photo: Baized hossain / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0); a representative picture of a farmer in Faridpur
Source: Agricare24
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