Agricultural extension officials and scientists at a daylong workshop underlined the need for an integrated effort to boost the farmers level seed production of pulses and oilseed production to meet up its gradually increasing domestic demands, reports BSS.
They viewed the region including its vast barind tract is very suitable for the seed production and urged the field level extension officials to put in their best effort to enhance the production through the best uses of the existing natural resources.
Emphasis should be given on habituating the farmers with the modern cultivation method along with using quality seed through establishing projection plot of improved technologies for enhancing pulse output.
Additional Director Office of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) organized the regional workshop styled “Farmers level Production, Preservation and Distribution of High yielding Seed of Pulse, Oil-seed and Onion Project” at NCDP conference hall in Rajshahi city yesterday.
Director (Plant Protection Wing) of DAE Abul Kalam Azad and Regional Seed Certification Officer Sonchoy Kumar Koyalder addressed the workshop as chief and special guests respectively with Additional Director Fazlur Rahman in the chair.
Deputy Project Director Zebunnessa Jabedur, DAE Deputy Director Joynal Abedeen and District Seed Certification Officers Sirajul Islam and Saleh Ahmed also spoke.
More than 84 district and upazila level agricultural officials, researchers and farmers from four districts in the region attended the workshop.
Director Abul Kalam Azad said the agricultural extension and research officials have a vital role to play for accelerating the country’s agro-production including the pulses and oilseed and urged them to reach the innovated technologies and modern know-how to the doorstep of the farmers so that they could derive the benefits of those properly.