Call to promote synchronised cultivation tech to boost output

Agricultural scientists and researchers urged the farmers to promote synchronize cultivation technology to make the farming system more profitable and sustainable through boosting its outputs.

They mentioned that large-scale adoption of the synchronize cultivation technology including its rice transplanting machine can be an effective means of facing the existing agriculture related challenges.

The agriculturists came up with the observation while addressing a farmers’ field day meeting on the issue at Bijoynagar area under Godagari upazila in the district.

Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) jointly organized the meeting in order to disseminate knowledge relating to various aspects of farm mechanization among the farmers.

DAE Deputy Director Khayer Uddin Mollah and BRRI Chief Scientific Officer Dr Aminul Islam addressed the meeting as chief and special guests respectively with Upazila Agriculture Officer Shafiqul Islam in the chair.

DAE Additional Deputy Director Dr Bimol Kumar Parmanik, Agriculture Engineer Shah Saidur Rahman and Regional Officer of Agriculture Information Services Abdulllahu-Hil Kafi also spoke as resource persons.

Dr Aminul Islam observed that the region’s agriculture is facing many challenges including climate change, labour shortage, irrigation water scarcity and increase of crop cultivation cost. So, promotion of farm mechanization has become indispensable.

He told the meeting that cropping intensity can be increased to 250 percent even 400 percent from the existing 200 percent through reducing the existing time gap between the two crops through the best uses of the farm mechanization.

Dr Islam said average benefits from the farm mechanization have been estimated at 34 percent labor saving, 31 percent less seed required, six percent fertilizers saving, 32 percent pesticide cost saving leading to 10 percent lower production cost for many crops.

He urged the farmers to use rice transplanting machine as it is built on water-saving technology.

He added that the technology saves electricity about 755 kWh per hectare per year for the existing rice farming system. Portraying a salient feature of the machine before the participants he said it’s cost effective.

 

Call to promote synchronised cultivation tech to boost output

Agricultural scientists and researchers urged the farmers to promote synchronize cultivation technology to make the farming system more profitable and sustainable through boosting its outputs. They mentioned that large-scale adoption of the synchronize cultivation technology including its rice transplanting machine can be an effective means of facing the existing agriculture related challenges. The agriculturists came up with the observation while addressing a farmers field day meeting on the issue at Bijoynagar area under Godagari upazila in the district. Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) jointly organized the meeting in order to disseminate knowledge relating to various aspects of farm mechanization among the farmers. DAE Deputy Director Khayer Uddin Mollah and BRRI Chief Scientific Officer Dr Aminul Islam addressed the meeting as chief and special guests respectively with Upazila Agriculture Officer Shafiqul Islam in the chair. DAE Additional Deputy Director Dr Bimol Kumar Parmanik, Agriculture Engineer Shah Saidur Rahman and Regional Officer of Agriculture Information Services Abdulllahu-Hil Kafi also spoke as resource persons. Dr Aminul Islam observed that the regions agriculture is facing many challenges including climate change, labour shortage, irrigation water scarcity and increase of crop cultivation cost. So, promotion of farm mechanization has become indispensable. He told the meeting that cropping intensity can be increased to 250 percent even 400 percent from the existing 200 percent through reducing the existing time gap between the two crops through the best uses of the farm mechanization. Dr Islam said average benefits from the farm mechanization have been estimated at 34 percent labor saving, 31 percent less seed required, six percent fertilizers saving, 32 percent pesticide cost saving leading to 10 percent lower production cost for many crops. He urged the farmers to use rice transplanting machine as it is built on water-saving technology. He added that the technology saves electricity about 755 kWh per hectare per year for the existing rice farming system. Portraying a salient feature of the machine before the participants he said its cost effective.