White maize farming prospect bright in Barind area

Agricultural scientists and researchers have urged the farmers to promote white maize farming in the high Barind tract as the cereal crop has been proved as drought tolerant and less-irrigation consuming, reports BSS.
They said that Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) has recently released two hybrid maize varieties, BARI Hybrid Bhutta-12 and BARI Hybrid Bhutta-13, and there are enormous prospects of expanding those among the growers in drought-prone area to mitigate its water-stress condition.
Additional 2.8 lakh tonnes of white maize could be harvested from 35,000 hectares of land in Rabi season through only a single irrigation every year.
They were addressing a farmers’ field day styled “BARI Hybrid Bhutta-12 and BARI Hybrid Bhutta-13: Drought tolerant and Less-Irrigation Consuming Crop in Barind” held at Mission More under Godagari Upazila in Rajshahi Saturday afternoon.
Barind Station of On-Farm Research Division (OFRD) under BARI organized the programme in association with its Plant Breeding Division (PBD). More than 300 farmers including other officers and researchers concerned joined the meeting.
Director (Research) of BARI Dr Jalal Uddin and District Training Officer of DAE Shamsul Haque addressed the meeting as chief and special guests respectively with Dr Amiruzzaman, Chief Scientific Officer of PBD, in the chair. BARI Principal Scientific Officers Dr Alim Uddin and Dr Ilias Hossain, Senior Scientific Officers Dr Shakhawat Hossain and Mahbubul Alam also spoke.
Elaborating salient features of the varieties Dr Shakhawat Hossain told the meeting that special characteristic of the varieties is nutritious and white in colour similar to wheat.

White maize farming prospect bright in Barind area

Agricultural scientists and researchers have urged the farmers to promote white maize farming in the high Barind tract as the cereal crop has been proved as drought tolerant and less-irrigation consuming, reports BSS. They said that Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) has recently released two hybrid maize varieties, BARI Hybrid Bhutta-12 and BARI Hybrid Bhutta-13, and there are enormous prospects of expanding those among the growers in drought-prone area to mitigate its water-stress condition. Additional 2.8 lakh tonnes of white maize could be harvested from 35,000 hectares of land in Rabi season through only a single irrigation every year. They were addressing a farmers field day styled BARI Hybrid Bhutta-12 and BARI Hybrid Bhutta-13: Drought tolerant and Less-Irrigation Consuming Crop in Barind held at Mission More under Godagari Upazila in Rajshahi Saturday afternoon. Barind Station of On-Farm Research Division (OFRD) under BARI organized the programme in association with its Plant Breeding Division (PBD). More than 300 farmers including other officers and researchers concerned joined the meeting. Director (Research) of BARI Dr Jalal Uddin and District Training Officer of DAE Shamsul Haque addressed the meeting as chief and special guests respectively with Dr Amiruzzaman, Chief Scientific Officer of PBD, in the chair. BARI Principal Scientific Officers Dr Alim Uddin and Dr Ilias Hossain, Senior Scientific Officers Dr Shakhawat Hossain and Mahbubul Alam also spoke. Elaborating salient features of the varieties Dr Shakhawat Hossain told the meeting that special characteristic of the varieties is nutritious and white in colour similar to wheat.