RANGPUR, July 07, 2018 (BSS) – Director of Field Service Wing of the
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Dr Md Abdul Muyeed has directed the
DAE’s field level officials to take early preparedness for facing any natural
calamity to ensure successful cultivation of Transplanted Aman rice this
season.
Dr Muyeed passed the direction at a regional level views-exchange meeting
organised by Rangpur regional office of the DAE in its conference room here
on Friday afternoon as the chief guest.
DAE Additional Director Md Shah Alam presided over the meeting moderated by
Rangpur Regional Farm Broadcasting Officer of the Agriculture Information
Service (AIS) Md Abu Sayem.
The deputy directors, district training officers, additional deputy
directors and horticulture specialists of the DAE from Rangpur, Gaibandha,
Kurigram, Lalmonirhat and Nilphamari districts under Rangpur agriculture
region and upazila level agriculture officers of Rangpur took part in the
meeting.
The participating district and upazila level officials of the DAE apprised
Dr Muyeed of the ongoing agricultural activities, condition of growing crops
and problems being faced by them and sought necessary directions for
resolving those.
Dr Muyeed delivered necessary directions and suggestions to the field level
agriculture officials for resolving the problems and issues being faced by
them to make agricultural activities successful.
“During the post-liberation period, the agriculture sector, among many
other thriving sectors, has attained epoch-making success making the country
self-reliant in food production,” Muyeed said.
He said the DAE has been reaching the new agriculture technologies and crop
varieties evolved by different agricultural research institutions and
organisations to the farmers at the field levels successfully bringing a
revolution in the agriculture sector.
He suggested agriculture officers to direct sub-assistant agriculture
officers to assist farmers in making model seedbeds, sowing rice seed and
seedling in lines keeping a space after every 10 lines and using perching
methods for pests’ managements in every block during the current Aman rice
farming season.
He directed field level agriculture officials to strengthen monitoring
activities and prepare late variety Aman rice seedbeds on highlands and
floating seedbeds in low-lying flood-prone areas so that there was no
seedling crisis for floods, if any.