Promoting synchronised cultivation technology to boost output urged

City Desk :

Agricultural extension officials and experts urged the farmers to promote synchronized cultivation technology to make the farming system more profitable and sustainable through boosting its outputs.

They mentioned that large-scale adoption of the synchronized cultivation technology including its combined paddy harvester machine can be an effective means of facing the existing agriculture related challenges. The agriculturists came up with the observation while addressing a farmers’ field day meeting on the occasion of crop cutting at Laldighi area under Godagari upazila in Rajshahi district recently.

The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) organized the meeting in order to disseminate knowledge relating to various aspects of farm mechanization among the farmers, reports BSS.

DAE Director General Badal Chandra Biswas addressed the meeting as the chief guest, while Additional Director Shamsul Wadud and Deputy Director Mozder Hossain spoke as special guests with Upazila Nirbahi Officer Sonjoy Kumar Mohanta in the chair.
Upazila Agriculture Officer Mariam Ahmed welcomed the participants.

Badal Chandra Biswas observed that the region’s agriculture is facing many challenges including climate change, labour shortage, irrigation water scarcity and increase of crop cultivation cost. So, promotion of farm mechanization has become indispensable.