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Manifold problems grip farmers in Cox’s Bazar

From Our Correspondent
COX'S BAZAR, June 26: Most of the farmers in the Cox's Bazar district are facing economic hardship. Cultivation is being hampered seriously as they cannot afford to buy agricultural inputs.
The farmers who are capable also do not get fair price tor their produce. Taking ad vantages of the economic condition of the farmers the local money lenders are doing brisk business by giving loan at higher rate of interest
A large number of landless agricultural labourers are also passing hard days.
The peasants are compelled to sell their crops to the money lenders in advance at Taka 100 to Taka 120 per maund to buy agricultural inputs
Meanwhile, the price of bullocks has recorded a sharp fall and most of the fanners have already sold their draught animals at nominal prices
Natural calamities and low
price of agricultural produce made the farmers unable to repay the loans they had taken from different banks, farmers said.
Meanwhile, the banks including the Krishi Bank issued notices to the farmers to repay their loans within the specified period Many farmers are selling their land and household belongings to repay the loans.
The farmers said that they have no other alternatives other than this. The price of land has also come down. They urged the authorities to extend time for the repayment of the loans
On the other hand, the indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers and uninterrupted cultivation of same crop on same land are steadily lessening the fertility of soil in seven thanas of Cox's Bazar district.
Cultivators use chemical fertilizers indiscriminately to St maximum production and us destroying the fertility of
soil. They also cultivate same crops on the same land without interval.
Most of the cultivable lands of Cox's Bazar are used twice or thrice for producing crops every year. A total 60 to 80 kg seers of chemical fer tilizers including urea, TSP and pot us is used per bigha of land
The farmers rarely use or ganic fertilizers including cow dung which increase fertility.
It is suggested that chemical fertilizers should be used after proper test of soil in consultation with the agriculture experts. Otherwise, the yielding rate will further come Sown and there will be a time when the produce will fail to meet even the production cost. Local people suggested that the farmers directly involved in agriculture should properly be trained on the agricultural method by ar ranging training camp temporarily, if possible in every union.