Rangpur farmers produce 1,84,603 tonnes of clean Aush rice

National Desk :

Farmers have produced 1,84,603 tonnes of clean Aush rice (2,76,905 tonnes in terms of paddy) in all five districts of Rangpur agriculture region during the just-ended Kharif-1 season.

Officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) said a target of producing 1,91,460 tonnes of clean Aush rice (2,87,190 tonnes in terms of paddy) from 63,255 hectares of land for Rangpur agriculture region this time.

“However, farmers finally brought 61,163 hectares of land under Aush rice cultivation, less by 2,092 hectares against the fixed farming target,” Additional Director of the DAE for Rangpur region MdSirajul Islam.

Farmers completed harvesting their cultivated Aush rice last week producing 1,84,603 tonnes of clean rice at an excellent average yield rate of 3.02 tonnes per hectare of land, reports BSS.

Despite the adverse effects of climate change, the farming and production of Aush rice is increasing as a result of the government’s pragmatic steps through the DAE and other agriculture-related organisations and intuitions to ensure food security.

The steps include distribution of special incentives in terms of high-yielding variety seeds and fertilisers among small and marginal farmers, conducting motivational campaigns, providing training and technical support to them.

“Farmers are showing more interest in cultivating Aush rice as an additional crop during the off-season after harvesting Boro rice and before planting Aman rice seedlings to increase rice production across the region” KrishibidMdSirajul Islam said.

In 2024, farmers produced 1,84,617 tonnes of clean Aush rice (2,76,925 tonnes in terms of paddy) from 61,782 hectares of land in the region.