Vegetables
Raised-bed sorjan farming spreads to 7,000 hectares in coastal Bhola
Vegetables on raised beds, fish or rice in the low strips between them: Bhola farmers now crop all year on land that lay fallow after the aman harvest.
Vegetables on raised beds, fish or rice in the low strips between them: Bhola farmers now crop all year on land that lay fallow after the aman harvest.
At Katachhara in Mirsarai, Chattogram, agricultural entrepreneur Muslim Uddin grows papaya, year-round chilli and taro together on one bigha using the sorjan raised-bed method, and expects about Tk 5 lakh from the papaya alone.
The Indonesian Sorjan method of raised beds and trellises over water now covers 2,071 hectares in Noakhali and produces about Tk 55 crore of vegetables a year.