Promoting synchronised cultivation tech to boost output stressed.Agricultural extension officials and expertsurged the farmers to promote synchronized cultivation technology to make thefarming system more profitable and sustainable through boosting its outputs.They mentioned that large-scale adoption of the synchronized cultivationtechnology including its combined paddy harvester machine can be an effectivemeans 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 underGodagari upazila in the district today.
The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) organized the meeting in orderto disseminate knowledge relating to various aspects of farm mechanizationamong the farmers. DAE Director General Badal Chandra Biswas addressed the meeting as the chiefguest, while Additional Director Shamsul Wadud and Deputy Director Mozder Hossain spoke as special guests with Upazila Nirbahi Officer Sonjoy KumarMohanta in the chair.
Promoting synchronised cultivation tech to boost output stressed
Upazila Agriculture Officer Mariam Ahmed welcomed the participants.Badal Chandra Biswas observed that the region’s agriculture is facing manychallenges including climate change, labour shortage, irrigation waterscarcity and increase of crop cultivation cost. So, promotion of farmmechanization has become indispensable.
He told the meeting that cropping intensity can be increased to 250 percenteven 400 percent from the existing 200 percent through reducing the existingtime gap between the two crops through the best uses of the farmmechanization.
Badal Biswas said average benefits from the farm mechanization have beenestimated at 34 percent labor saving, 31 percent less seed required, sixpercent fertilizers saving, 32 percent pesticide cost saving leading to 10percent lower production cost for many crops.He urged the farmers to use rice transplanting machines as it is built onwater-saving technology.
He added that the technology saves about 755 kWh per hectare per year for theexisting rice farming system. Portraying a salient feature of the machinebefore the participants he said it’s cost effective.
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