MANIKGANJ: The farmers of char area in three upazilas of the district are happy after getting bumper output of groundnut as harvesting of the crop continues on the barren char lands during this current Kharip-1 season, reports BSS.
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources said the groundnut is generally cultivated on the sandy land. Experimentally some local farmers started to cultivate groundnut on their barren land which remain uncultivated all the year in the char areas for last few years.
On their success a number of farmers now are cultivating groundnut as cash crop in the vast char areas of the Jamuna and the Padma in Daulatpur, Shibalaya and Harirampur upazilas. The char farmers are getting reasonable price of the crop between Tk. 2000 to 2400 per mound according to quality in the local markets. Later, the crop is supplied to the different parts of the country.
DAE officials said, a total of 2,194 hectares of land have been brought under the cultivation during the season in the district exceeding its fixed target 2,003 hectares of land.