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Jute harvesting progressing in Jamalpur

Published : Saturday, 17 August, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 110
Farmers in Jamalpur have continued jute harvesting during this kharip-1 season, agriculture officials said.

Jamalpur District Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) office sources said jute harvesting is on the last stage as farmers have already harvested jute on 20,900 hectares of land, out of 24,280 hectares of land. 

The agriculture officials said that the farmers cultivated four varieties of jute this year. The varieties included local, Tosha, Mesta and Kenaf.

The growers cultivated Tosha variety of jute on 21,975 hectares of land while local variety on 1,750 hectares, Kenaf variety on 500 hectares and Mesta variety jute on 55 hectares.

This year, 7,850 hectares of land came under jute cultivation in Islampur Upazila, 2,880 hectares in Dewanganj, 3,205 hectares in Sarishabari, 3,190 hectares in Jamalpur Sadar, 2,820 hectares in Madarganj, 2,740 hectares in Bakshiganj and 1,595 hectares in Melandah of the district.

DAE Sources said farmers got 2 tonnes of jute fibre of local variety from a hectare of land while 2.20 tonnes Tosha variety, 1.85 tonnes Mesta variety and 1.90 tonnes Kenaf variety.

The agriculture officials said though on the first stage, farmers harvested jute early due to flood and got fewer yields but on the mid and last stages, the production is expected to be high.

District DAE Deputy Director (DD) Zakia Sultana said aiming to increase production, incentive on jute cultivation was disbursed among 13,600 small and marginal farmers in all the seven upazilas of the district.

Each of the farmers got one kilogram jute seeds for cultivation on one Bigha of land, the DAE DD added.     —BSS



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