MANIKGANJ, June, 25, 2019 (BSS) – Harvesting of groundnut in the vast char areas of Daulatpur, Shibalaya and Harirampur Upazilas of the district are going on full swing during the current Kharip season.
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) officials here said the groundnut is generally cultivated on the sandy land and it needs no irrigation.
Experimentally, some local farmers started cultivating groundnut on their barren land which would remain fallow all over the year in the char areas of the Jamuna and the Padma rivers.
The char farmers are getting fair prices of the crop between Tk. 2000 and 2400 per mound depending on quality.
According to DAE sources a total of 2,412 hectares of land has been brought under groundnut cultivation, exceeding its target of 2003 hectares. But local sources said more than four thousand hectares of land came under groundnut cultivation this season.
Abdul Latif, Chairman of Bachamara Union Parishad said about two thousand bighas of groundnut of his union was inundated a few days ago as the water of Jamuna raised suddenly.
Ahmad Ali, one groundnut cultivator of char Kalikapur of Baghutia union of Daulatpur upazila, said he has cultivated groundnut on two bighas of land this season and is getting expected production and prices.
Mizanur Rahman Tota, Union Parishad member of Baghutia, said groundnut cultivation is gaining popularity in the char areas as it grows in the sandy barren land and it needs no irrigation.
Now groundnut became one of the cash crops for the char people, he said, adding groundnut is cultivated twice in the year in the winter and summer seasons.
Habibur Rahman Chowdhury, Deputy Director of DAE, said the sandy land of char area is suitable for groundnut cultivation and its cultivation is gaining popularity in the three Upazilas of Daulatpur, Shibalaya and Harirampur day by day.