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aDumuria farmers expect good profit from winter vegetables

Published : Saturday, 6 January, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 225
Our Correspondent
DUMURIA, KHULNA, Jan 5:  Commercial winter vegetable cultivation has yielded brightly in the upazila of the district.

After being benefitted, local farmers have started to cultivate less-cost vegetables in different areas of the upazila.

Winter vegetables, such as been, tomato, brinjal, bitter gourd, bottle gourd, radish, cauliflower, cabbage, red spinach, and Malabar spinach have been cultivated at a large scale.

In the morning, growers are going to their fields for carrying out vegetable lifting and rearing activities.
After meeting the local demand, vegetables are sent to other districts of the country.

According to sources at the Upazila Agriculture office, this season, about 4,000 hectares (ha) of land were targeted for the winter vegetables at Dumuria. Growers were given good quality seeds, fertilizer and tools.

In order to ensure quality, organic insecticide is applied in fields. The cultivation is done using mulching and bed systems.
A recent visit to different areas and bazaars in 14 unions of the upazila found growers passing busy time. In fields they were seen weeding and spraying. In bazaars others were seen marketing their new vegetables.

A grower Sureshwar said, he has cultivated winter vegetables on about 60 decimals of land. His vegetables included tomato, bottle gourd, red spinach, and radish.

His total cost including land preparing, sapling plantation, and fencing stood at about Tk 20,000. He has already started to sell bottle gourd, radish and red spinach. So far, he has sold vegetables of Tk 15,000. His target is to get a total sale of Tk 1 lakh. In the last year, he got a profit of Tk  70,000.

Farmer Mizanur Rahman said, ignoring different barriers, he cultivated bottle gourd, brinjal, bitter gourd, and red spinach on 70 decimals of land; but his vegetable farm got damaged a bit due to repeated rain. Later on, he cultivated these again according to advice from the agriculture office. Now his yielding has been comparatively good. At present, he is getting good prices at bazaars.

He is expecting a profit of Tk 80,000.

Farmer Sohag Mia said, this season, he has brought 130 decimals under cauliflower, radish, red spinach, tomato, and others. He planted a total of 6,000 cauliflower saplings. It cost him about Tk 40,000.

Sales of radish and red spinach have already begun. "I hope a profit of Tk 1.5 lakh if the weather remains good," he said.

If paddy would be cultivated on these lands, it would not be paddy of more than Tk 40,000, he added.

Another Golam Rasul would cultivate paddy before. He left it several years back. Since then he has cultivating vegetables.

This season, he has farmed tomato, bottle gourd, red spinach and brinjal on two bighas of land. He expects good profit.

Farmer Abdul Jalil said, "I have been cultivating vegetables for the last eight years as it requires less cost but profit is high."

Dumuria Upazila Agriculture Officer Md Insad Ibne Amin said, local farmers were given necessary advice to increase yielding of vegetables.

Despite rain damages, for regular care, the production has been good, he added.
The official said, current market prices are benefitting growers.



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