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Farmers sell Boro paddy below production cost

From Our Correspondent
KUSHTIA. July 11: Farmers here arc selling the newly harvested Boro paddy below the production cost.
At present, Boro paddy Is selling between Taka 180 and Taka 200 per mound against the approximate production cost of Taka 230, farmers said. The small and the marginal farmers are now compelled to sell their produces at throwaway prices to pay loans they Look from local money lenders during cultivation.
Taking the advantage middlemen are controlling the paddy markets In KushUa district.
The low price has been attributed to the absence of adequate number of buyers.
Meanwhile, the absence of paddy procurement drive by the government Is also responsible (or low price, paddy sellers in markets in Mirpur, Bheramara, Daulatpur, Kumerkhall and
Khoksa upazilas said.
Officials of Food Department are reluctant to procure paddy directly from the growers, some farmers in Daulatpur said while talking to this correspondent last week.
When contacted. Food Department officials said that the drive could not be started as there was no adequate space in warehouses.
Meanwhile, BSS from Madaripur says: A total of 33,197 hectares of land will be brought under transplanted Aman cultivation in the district during the current season.
The production target of paddy has been fixed at 16,212 tons.
In Narslngdl, 800 hectares of land have been brought under Aus cultivation with a production target of 1,350 tons in the current season.
Of the total cultivation. 300 hectares have been brought
under HYV and 500 hectares under local variety.
According to Agriculture Extension Department. Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC) has ensured the adequate supply of fertilisers. pesticides and irrigation facilities for optimum production.
UNB from GopalganJ says: An extensive Aus and transplanted Aman cultivation scheme on 33,000 hectares of land has been undertaken in five upazllas of the district in the current season.
Local AED sources said of the total. 20.000 hectares will be brought under Aus and the rest 13.000 hectares under Anxan cultivation In Muksudpur, Kashiani, Kutalipara. Sadar and Tungipara upazllas.
BADC will supply seeds and pesticides and other necessary Inputs for the successful implementation of the scheme.