Agriculture experts for increasing Aus farming
BSS
RANGPUR: Agriculture experts at a crop cutting function have called for enhancing less irrigation-water consuming Aus rice cultivation as an additional cereal crop to increase rice production for attaining food security, reports BSS.
They made the call at the function organised for harvesting BRRI dhan48 variety Aus rice on the exhibition plot of farmer Sultan Ahmed at Jamuna Block of Durgapur union under Ulipur upazila of Kurigram on Wednesday afternoon.
Ulipur Upazila Agriculture Office of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) organised the function for the farmers to exhibit cultivation technologies of BRRI dhan48 Aus rice and inspire them in enhancing cultivation of the crop. With Ulipur Upazila Nirbahi Officer Muhammad Shafikul Islam in the chair, Ulipur Upazila Chairman Md Haider Ali attended the function and launched crop cutting of BRRI dhan48 Aus rice as the chief guest.
Ulipur Upazila Agriculture Officer of the DAE Agriculturist Ashok Kumar Roy, Additional Upazila Agriculture Officer Agriculturist Abdul Gaffer, Durgapur union Chairman Abed Ali Sarder, Sub-assistant Agriculture Officer Abdul Aziz and farmer Sultan Ahmed, spoke.
Agriculturist Roy narrated the importance of popularising Aus rice cultivation using seasonal rainwater to gradually replace costly Boro rice farming for reduce lifting of underground water to improve environment, ecology and biodiversity.
