RANGPUR, March 9, 2021 (BSS) – Experts at a training workshop have called upon farmers for adopting scientific methods and agronomic management technologies in tea cultivation on plain lands to boost production of high quality tea.
Bangladesh Tea Research Institute of Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB) organised the event on ‘Selection of leaves, fertilisation and pests’ management in tea plantation’ for 60 farmers at Lohakuchi village in Tentulia upazila of Panchagarh on Monday, a release said today.
The workshop was arranged under the ‘Expansion of small holding tea cultivation in northern Bangladesh project’ of BTB following the ‘Camellia Open Sky School Model’ to reach the latest scientific methods, technologies and tea related services to farmers.
Senior Scientific Officer (Entomology) of BTB and its Project Director for the Northern Bangladesh Project Agriculturist Dr. Mohammad Shameem Al Mamun moderated the on-field practical training workshop.
Development Officer at BTB’s Panchagarh Regional Office Agriculturist Md. Amir Hossain and its Assistant Farm Superintendent Agriculturist Mohammad Sayedul Haque conducted different sessions in the workshop as resource persons.
Agriculturist Amir Hossain discussed scientific methods of plantation, selection and plucking of tea leaves, fertilisation, integrated and organic pests’ management, pruning and tipping and other important issues in tea farming on plain lands.
Agriculturist Haque said plain lands of the five districts of Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, Dinajpur, Nilphamari and Lalmonirhat in the sub-Himalayan northern region are highly fertile and favourable for tea cultivation.
Agriculturist Dr. Mamun said tea cultivation on small-scale basis on plain lands has already unveiled a new horizon of economic prospect for farmers speeding up their economic development and improving living standard in the northern region.
“Farmers can earn more profits through expanding tea cultivation adopting scientific and organic methods on plain lands in these five northern districts to enhance production of high quality tea,” he added.