Bangladesh: Crop output delights char people in Rangpur region

Published 2021년 3월 6일

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The article highlights the success of the Char people in Rangpur agriculture region by bringing one lakh hectares of char lands under cultivation, leading to a bumper harvest and financial stability. Despite the lands being dried-up riverbeds and char lands, they have managed to grow a variety of crops, including mustard, vegetables, rice, and maize. This initiative, supported by the Department of Agricultural Extension and NGOs like RDRS Bangladesh, has seen tens of thousands of families becoming self-reliant and improving their living standards. The farmers are experiencing significant profits from crops like pumpkin, with expectations of continued success.

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RANGPUR, March 6, 2021 (BSS) – Char people are delighted getting bumper output with lucrative prices of various crops cultivated on dried-up riverbeds and riverine char lands in Rangpur agriculture region. Officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) said harvest of cultivated crops on shoals, dried-up and silted-up riverbeds and char lands continues in full swing and will end before the commencement of the next rainy season. The poor and landless char and riverside people have brought around one- lakh hectares of char lands under farming of various crops in all five districts of the region during the current Rabi season. The farmers have mostly cultivated pumpkin, mustard, watermelon, ‘kawn’, onion, garlic, chili, pulses, potatoes and other vegetables, maize, wheat, squash, gourd, capsicum, Boro rice, groundnut and other crops on these lands. “Char people already completed harvesting of mustard and many varieties of vegetables as the process will continue for some ...

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sanstha