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for sustainable production intensification
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Sustainable Crop Production Intensification
http://www1.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=379391&date=2013-12-28
http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2013/12/29/11053
The Bangladesh Today_December 29, 2013
RAJSHAHI : Speakers at a training programme here have urged farmers to
promote modern technologies especially raised bed system for boosting crop
yield to ensure food security of the country\’s gradually increasing
population, reports BSS.
They also urged the croppers to cultivate four less-irrigated crops- wheat,
maize, chickpea and lentil- through promoting the updated technologies instead
of relying only on the Irri-Boro to face the water-stress condition caused by
various natural and manmade catastrophes in the dried area.
The modern technologies are being adjudged as proven tools of cropping
intensity increase by 25 percent, production cost reduction by 40 percent,
system productivity increase by 20-25 percent and farmers income increase by
30-40 percent as a whole, they added. The raining programme titled \’Validation
and up-scaling of resource conserving technologies for improving productivity
in drought-prone areas\’ was held at Rajabari
High School under
Godagari Upazila of the district Friday.
Regional Wheat Research
Center (RWRC), an organ
of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institution, organized the training for
disseminating ideas of modern farming technologies and strategies among the
grassroots farmers.
In his keynote speech, Dr Ilias Hossain, Senior Scientific Officer of RWRC,
viewed that the raised-bed system always help increasing water use efficiency
coupled with boosting cropping intensity and system productivity through
reducing the existing time gap between the two crops in drought-prone area.
The technology contains some other special features like labour saving, easier
crop management and higher yield. It allows higher yield through reducing the
application rate of irrigation water. Thereby, the food production increases
feeding more peoples. The raised bed planting technology is very promising and
the farmers should adopt technology and practice in various cropping fields
like wheat, maize, mugbean and lentil. The raised bed planter save time and
cost of cultivation and the seeding operation is finished during ploughing
time.
As a whole, Dr Ilias views the technology could be promoted to a greater extent
if, in near future, a nationwide pilot project was adopted.
Taking part in the open discussion, the farmers put forward a set of
recommendations like machinery purchase on subsidized rate for its proper
acceleration and dissemination, more training for the farmers, operators,
extension workers, machinery manufacturers and ICM club members. The stressed
the need for popularizing the raised bed method widely so that the farmers can
derive total benefits of the technology.
Among others, RWRC Scientific Officer Zahidul Islam and headmaster of the school Akhteruzzaman also spoke.
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