Bangladesh can produce additional 2.6m tonnes of mustard oil seeds a year

Published 2021년 5월 9일

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Bangladesh's agriculture minister, Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, has proposed a new crop rotation that could increase the country's mustard oilseed production by 2.6 million tonnes annually, translating to around 1.04 million tonnes of mustard oil, which is nearly half of Bangladesh's cooking oil demand. This initiative, aimed at cultivating mustard during the fallow period between the Aman and Boro seasons, could potentially reduce the country's significant annual expenditure on imported edible oils by Tk 150-200 billion. The minister announced this at a rice harvest ceremony where he introduced two new Boro rice varieties, BRRI dhan 89 and 92, which are expected to yield more paddy per bigha than previous varieties and mature earlier. The adoption of these new rice varieties and the proposed crop rotation could extend the cultivation to include an additional crop on lands currently following a two-crop rotation, as stated by the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI).

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Bangladesh can produce an additional 2.6-million tonnes of mustard oilseeds annually by adopting a new crop arrangement. Agriculture minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said this on Saturday. Cultivating mustard during the fallow period between Aman and Boro seasons, he said, farmers can grow this big volume of mustard seeds on high and mid-high land. "We can extract 1.04-million tonnes of mustard oil from the seeds, almost half the cooking oil's demand," cited Mr Razzaque. He was inaugurating a rice harvest ceremony at Dhanbari in Tangail district, said a press release issued by the agricultural ministry. The minister was speaking as the chief guest at the programme marking the newly released Boro rice varieties-BRRI dhan 89 and 92. The Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) and the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) hosted the event chaired by BRRI director general Dr Shahjahan Kabir. Senior agriculture secretary Md Mesbahul Islam, DAE director general Md Asadullah, ...

Source: The Financial Express