RANGPUR, Nov 23, 2020 (BSS) – Experts at a training workshop have stressed on enhancing production of quality tea adopting scientific methods and latest technologies in small-scale farming of the crop on plain lands in the northern region.
They expressed the view in the practical training workshop on ‘Plucking, pruning and pests’ management in tea plantation’ held at village Talma in Amarkhana union of Sadar upazila in Panchagarh on Sunday afternoon, a press release said today.
Bangladesh Tea Research Institute of Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB) organised the event for 65 small-scale tea growers under its ‘Expansion of Small Holding Tea Cultivation in Northern Bangladesh Project’.
The workshop was arranged aiming at reaching practical knowledge and latest scientific methods, technologies and tea related services to small-scale farmers’ for expanding tea cultivation and promoting production of quality tea.
Development Officer at BTB’s Panchagarh Regional Office Agriculturalist Md. Amir Hossain, its Assistant Farm Superintendent Agriculturist Mohammad Sayedul Haque and farmer Abul Basher conducted different sessions in the workshop as resource persons.
Amir Hossain discussed plantation, selection and plucking of tea leaves, fertilisation and pruning and tipping, management of tea nursery, soil and fertilisers and scientific methods and technologies for tea cultivation on plain lands.
Sayedul Haque narrated proper management of tea insects, diseases and weeds and practical knowledge on tea cultivation and other important issues in tea plantations on plain lands.
“The plain lands on the Kartoa Valley ecological zone comprising five northern districts of Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, Dinajpur, Nilphamari and Lalmonirhat are highly fertile and favourable for tea cultivation,” he said.
Amir Hossain suggested participating farmers for expanding small-scale tea cultivation on plain lands to earn higher profits than other crops for faster economic development of the northern region.
Abul Basher said small-scale tea cultivation has ushered in a new epoch and economic prospect for local people speeding up their economic development by enhancing production and improving the quality of their produced tea in the region.