RANGPUR, Feb 28, 2021 (BSS) – Experts at an on-field practical training
workshop have stressed on adopting scientific methods and latest technologies
in tea cultivation on plain lands to further boost its production.
Bangladesh Tea Research Institute of Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB)
organised the event on ‘Selection of leaves, fertilisation and pests’
management in tea plantation’ for 65 tea growers at Buraburi union in
Tentulia upazila of Panchagarh on Saturday, a press 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 workshop.
Development Officer at BTB’s Panchagarh Regional Office Agriculturist
Md. Amir Hossain delivered speech in the workshop as a resource person.
Agriculturist Hossain discussed the scientific plantation process,
selection and plucking of tea leaves, fertilisation, integrated pests’
management (IPM) and pruning and tipping and other important issues in tea
plantation on plain lands.
Agriculturist Dr. Mamun said 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.
“Commercial tea cultivation on small-scale basis on plain lands has
already unveiled a new horizon of economic prospect for farmers and common
people speeding up their economic development in the northern region,” he
added.
He called upon farmers for expanding small-scale tea cultivation on
plain lands adopting scientific and organic methods ensuring proper agronomic
management to enhance production of quality tea and earn higher profits in
the northern region.