Winter vegetables
Farmers happy with bumper yield
Special Correspondent :
Farmers across the country are reaping bumper yield of winter vegetables taking advantage of favourable weather conditions.
The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has set a target to bring a total of 5.28 lakh hectares of land under the vegetables cultivation this year compared with 5.10 lakh hectares in the last year.
“Farmers are getting good harvest of winter vegetables with bumper production which is expected to hit a record high this time,” Md Mosarraf Hossain, Additional Secretary (extension) for the Ministry of Agriculture, told The New Nation on Friday.
He said: “A favourable climate, better access of seeds, irrigation and adaptation of modern farming know-how helped the farmers to get a bumper production”.
Mosarraf claimed the harvesting of the vegetables in the major vegetable growing districts is now going on in full-swing and farmers are getting fair prices of their produces.
“Both cultivation area and production of vegetables rose consistently over
the past few years as vegetable farming has become largely profitable than other crops for the farmers,” he noted.
When asked, he said, prices of vegetables are still remain high in the city markets despite their bumper harvest due to lack of efficient supply mechanism.
“Bumper harvest is not reaching the end consumers due to inefficiency in supply chain and wastage and it later push up prices of the vegetables in the markets,” he added.
According to him, about 40 per cent vegetables are going waste from production to the end consumers.
Vegetable production hit 13.80 million tonnes in the fiscal year 2013-14. Production is increasing by 6.0 per cent on an average per annum, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
The winter season vegetables are cauliflower, cabbage, brinjal, bean, french, radish, spinach (green and red), ladies finger, basil, bottle gourd, white gourd, sweet gourd, cucumber, snake gourd, bitter gourd, gourd, parbol tomato etc.
Farmers of Bogra, a major vegetable growing district in the country, while talking to the local correspondent of The New Nation said yesterday that they are getting fair prices of their produces this time after harvesting a bumper production.
“I have cultivated cauliflower in five bighas (1.65 hectares) of land. The cultivation cost of per bigha cauliflower was Tk 15,000. But I sold my produces at Tk 60,000 that gave me a hefty profit,” Shiblu Mia, a farmer of Sherpur upazila under Borga district, told The New Nation on Friday.
“I have cultivated 6,000 pieces of cabbage with an average cost of Tk 5 and sold at Tk 20 per piece after harvesting. I got fair prices of the prices and it makes me happy,” Sujaul Islam, another farmer of Gabtoli upazila under the district, told The New Nation yesterday.
The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) in Bogra has brought a total of 12,000 hectares of land under the cultivation with the production target of 2,64,000 tonnes of different types of winter vegetable.
“A favourable climatic condition has led to achieve a plentiful production of vegetables in Bogra district and such a production has brought smile on the faces of farmers of all the upazilas in the district as they got fair price of their produces during the current season,” Protul Chandra Sarkar, Deputy Director of Bogra DAE told The New Nation.
Farmers across the country are reaping bumper yield of winter vegetables taking advantage of favourable weather conditions.
The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has set a target to bring a total of 5.28 lakh hectares of land under the vegetables cultivation this year compared with 5.10 lakh hectares in the last year.
“Farmers are getting good harvest of winter vegetables with bumper production which is expected to hit a record high this time,” Md Mosarraf Hossain, Additional Secretary (extension) for the Ministry of Agriculture, told The New Nation on Friday.
He said: “A favourable climate, better access of seeds, irrigation and adaptation of modern farming know-how helped the farmers to get a bumper production”.
Mosarraf claimed the harvesting of the vegetables in the major vegetable growing districts is now going on in full-swing and farmers are getting fair prices of their produces.
“Both cultivation area and production of vegetables rose consistently over
the past few years as vegetable farming has become largely profitable than other crops for the farmers,” he noted.
When asked, he said, prices of vegetables are still remain high in the city markets despite their bumper harvest due to lack of efficient supply mechanism.
“Bumper harvest is not reaching the end consumers due to inefficiency in supply chain and wastage and it later push up prices of the vegetables in the markets,” he added.
According to him, about 40 per cent vegetables are going waste from production to the end consumers.
Vegetable production hit 13.80 million tonnes in the fiscal year 2013-14. Production is increasing by 6.0 per cent on an average per annum, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
The winter season vegetables are cauliflower, cabbage, brinjal, bean, french, radish, spinach (green and red), ladies finger, basil, bottle gourd, white gourd, sweet gourd, cucumber, snake gourd, bitter gourd, gourd, parbol tomato etc.
Farmers of Bogra, a major vegetable growing district in the country, while talking to the local correspondent of The New Nation said yesterday that they are getting fair prices of their produces this time after harvesting a bumper production.
“I have cultivated cauliflower in five bighas (1.65 hectares) of land. The cultivation cost of per bigha cauliflower was Tk 15,000. But I sold my produces at Tk 60,000 that gave me a hefty profit,” Shiblu Mia, a farmer of Sherpur upazila under Borga district, told The New Nation on Friday.
“I have cultivated 6,000 pieces of cabbage with an average cost of Tk 5 and sold at Tk 20 per piece after harvesting. I got fair prices of the prices and it makes me happy,” Sujaul Islam, another farmer of Gabtoli upazila under the district, told The New Nation yesterday.
The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) in Bogra has brought a total of 12,000 hectares of land under the cultivation with the production target of 2,64,000 tonnes of different types of winter vegetable.
“A favourable climatic condition has led to achieve a plentiful production of vegetables in Bogra district and such a production has brought smile on the faces of farmers of all the upazilas in the district as they got fair price of their produces during the current season,” Protul Chandra Sarkar, Deputy Director of Bogra DAE told The New Nation.
