Proper agronomic management to boost tea output stressed

Business Desk :
Experts at an on-field training workshop have stressed on ensuring proper scientific agronomic management using latest technologies in tea cultivation to boost production of quality tea and earn more profits.
Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB) organised the event on ‘Selection of leaves, fertilisation and pest management in tea plantation’ for 60 tea growers at village Zaunia in Baliadangi upazila of Thakurgaon on Thursday.
The event was arranged under the ‘Expansion of Small Holding Tea Cultivation in Northern Bangladesh Project’ of BTB following the ‘Camellia Open Sky School Model’ to reach the latest scientific methods, technologies and tea related services to farmers.
Senior Scientific Officer (Entomology) of BTB and its Project Director for the Northern Bangladesh Project Agriculturist Dr Mohammad Shameem Al Mamun moderated the on-field practical training workshop.
Assistant Farm Superintendent of BTB Agriculturist Mohammad Sayedul Haque conducted different sessions in the workshop as a resource person.