RAJSHAHI, Nov 27, 2019 (BSS) – Agricultural experts here today urged the growers to adopt farm mechanization in their crop fields to enhance their farm production.
This will help them to reduce production cost by at least 50 percent than the conventional system in Barind area.
It was viewed that the demand of food production is increasing day by day in line with the increasing population and there is no alternative to increase the food production from unit land area to feed the ever-increasing population.
Large-scale promotion of farm mechanization can be a vital means of attaining the cherished goal.
They came up with the observation while addressing a training session on operation and maintenance of “BARI Seeder” at Bijoynagar area under Godagari Upazila in the district.
Farm Machinery and Postharvest Process (FMP) Engineering Division of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) hosted the training in association with the ‘Improvement and validation of BARI seeder for grain crops under different cropping patterns and soil conditions’ project.
A total of 30 machine operators from Godagari, Paba, Puthiya, Bagha and Charghat Upazilas in the district took part in the training course and were given ideas and practical knowledge on how they can operate and maintain the seeder machines properly.
Disseminating his expertise on the issue, Senior Scientific Officer of FMP Engineering Division Dr Arshadul Hoque illustrated the salient feature of the machine.
“We have found the optimistic result in demonstration plots of some crops including wheat, chickpea, lentil, aman rice, mung-bean, maize, sesame, jute and Aush paddy in the area,” he told the participants.
Farmers are getting advantage of less labour and less cost by this machine. The improved seeder will be fabricated and promoted among the farmers through adaptive field trials and field demonstration throughout the Rajshahi region including its vast Barind tract, Dr Arshadul Hoque added.
Principal Scientific Officer Dr Alim Uddin and Senior Scientific Officers Dr Jagadish Chandra Barman, Dr. Abdul Matin and Dr Shakhawat Hossain also spoke on the occasion sharing their expertise on the issue.