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Farmers exceed set ginger farming target in Rangpur region
After getting repeated better yields with rewarding prices in recent years, farmers have exceeded cultivation target of ginger in the Rangpur agricultural region in this Kharif-1 season.
The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) had set a target of 55,753 tonnes of ginger production for farmers from 3,895 hectares of land in all five districts of the agricultural region this time.
However, they have brought 4,054 hectares of land under ginger cultivation exceeding the fixed farming target by 159 hectares of land or 4.08 percent in Rangpur, Gaibandha, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat and Nilphamari districts of the region this season.
Talking to BSS, Additional Director of the DAE for Rangpur region Krishibid Md Shirajul Islam said that farmers have completed sowing ginger seeds and seedlings and also expanded its cultivation by using sacs across the region.
'Farmers are successfully expanding ginger cultivation on crop lands, homesteads, char and fallow lands following its repeated bumper production and pleasing prices in recent years,' he said.
The government provided quality seeds to farmers this season like in the previous years to increase production of spice crops by ensuring proper crop diversification and using the latest technology to achieve self-sufficiency in locally produced spice crops.
'The DAE and other agriculture-related departments, agencies and institutions provided farmers with essential training and banks provided them with easy-to-use agri-loans to popularize the cultivation of ginger and other spice crops,' Krishibid Islam added.
Taking to BSS, farmers Yunus Ali, Jalal Uddin, Messer Ali and Borhan Uddin of different villages in Rangpur Sadar upazila said they have sown ginger seeds and seedlings in their crop lands, homesteads and fallow lands this season.
Farmer Shahinul Islam Bakul of Moyenpur village in Mithapukur upazila of Rangpur said that he has cultivated ginger in more than 18,000 sacks on his 80 decimals of land in his Haribhanga mango orchard this time.
After producing 115 maunds of ginger from 16,000 sacks and making a remarkable profit last year, Bakul is cultivating the same in 18,000 sacks as an additional companion crop in his Haribhanga mango orchard this season.
'If modern storage facilities are set up and all the fallow lands and homesteads are brought under ginger cultivation, it is possible to achieve self-sufficiency in our own ginger production,' Bakul said.
Retail vegetable trader Fazlur Rahman at Keranipara Kitchen Marker in Rangpur today said they are selling local varieties of ginger at rates between Taka 220 and Taka 240 per kg, while the imported Chinese variety at rates between Taka 120 and 140 per kg.
Former Rangpur Chamber President Mostafa Sohrab Chowdhury Titu highly lauded the government for taking various pragmatic steps to increase production of the spicy crops.
By expanding cultivation of high-yielding varieties of ginger in sacks, fallow lands, and char areas, its production can be further increased, so that its demand can be met and a huge amount of foreign exchange spent on ginger imports can be saved.
'Adequate storage facilities should be set up so that farmers can easily store their produced ginger and get good prices by ensuring smooth supply of their stored ginger throughout the year,' Titu suggested.
Source: BSS
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