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Expanded farming of short duration anti-Monga paddies to up outputs

Say experts

BSS,Rangpur
Agriculture experts yesterday said expanded farming of anti-Monga short duration Aman paddies would not only mitigate Monga. but also increase the overall rice production substantially.
They said large-scale farm-ingof these paddies during the Aman season can advance farming periods of all subsequent crops by 40 days to intensify the crop production further even under the changed climatic condition to ensure country's food security.
Risks of natural calamities, disasters, pests attacks, floods and droughts do not affect farming of these paddies, which are harvested within 115 to 120 days and at least a month ahead of the traditional Aman paddy, they also said.
Harvest of the short paddies in 56,000 hectares land began in the last week of September and continued throughout the peak Monga months of Ashwin and Kartik, helping the poor overcome the seasonal Monga without hurdles this time in greater Rangpur.
The farmers got an average yield of 3 tonnes clean rice per hectare of the anti-Monga short duration BRRI Dhan-33, BINA Dhan 7 and BU Dhan 1 paddies, harvests of which ended two weeks ago in greater Rangpur and Dinajpur.
Officials said they were expecting 8.5 percent more
Aman rice production than the fixed target this season in Rangpur Zone.
At least 50 percent harvest of T- Aman has so far been completed with average yield rates of 2.89 tonnes per hectare for hybrid, 2.63 tonnes foV high yielding and 1.60 tonnes for local varieties against 3 tonnes per hectare for the short duration paddies.
"We are expecting average per hectare yield rate at 2.7 to 2.8 tonnes clean Aman rice against targeted 2.50 tonnes rice per hectare this season," DAE's Additional Director (AD) of Rangpur Zone Shakhavvat Hossain told BSS yesterday.
Dr MA Mazid, coordinator of Cereal System Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) of International Rice Research Institute, stationed at Dinajpur, said tremendous successes have been achieved in combating Monga by farmingshortdurationpaddies.
"The farmers are getting more profits as harvest of the short paddies is being followed now by relay-method farming of early variety crops like vegetables, potato, mug, maize and mustard increasing crop intensities and reducing risks of natural calamities," he said.
He is now expecting a bumper Aman production despite adverse climate and initial droughts as the growing paddy plants have adapted with the available soil moisture and nutrient contents under Alternate Wet and Drying (AWD) Technology.
Hossain and Mazid said the growing paddy plants take Zinc and Sulphur nutrients better in dry condition and Potash and Phosphorus nutrients in wet condition under the AWD technology.
Head of Agriculture of RDRS MG Neogi said farmers, who cultivated BINA Dhan 7 and BU Dhan 1 under the
assistances of RDRS and its partner NGOs, got average 3 tonnes rice per hectare this season.
The farmers have brought 10,67,860 hectares under T-Aman farming against fixed target of 10,44,755 hectares in Rangpur Zone. "We are expecting a total rice production of 29,90,000 tonnes this season, which is about 8.5 percent in the Zone," he said.
Farmers Amir Uddin got 4.5 tonnes BRRI Dhan-33 paddy per hectare in Gaibandha, Abdur Rahman and Tayebur Rahman got 5 tonnes, Kochim Uddin got 6.55 tonnes BINA Dhan 7, Nosim Uddin and Abul Kalam got 6 tonnes of the paddy per hectare in Rangpur.
With the assistance of Resource Initiative Bangladesh, 251 farmers cultivated BRRI Dhan 33 on 375 bigha in village Laksmichap of Nilphamari district this time and got average yield of 4.5 tonnes paddy per hectare.
Principal Scientific Officer and Head of Rangpur Station of BRRI Dr MA Jalil Mridha said that BRRI Dhan 33 and BINA Dhan 7 successfully sustained droughts, grew well and harvested without any pest attacks.
DAE's Deputy Directors Kamal Shariful Alam, Yunus Ali, Hazrat Ali and Mohsin Ali said that farmers achieved tremendous successes in combating Monga by farming the short duration paddies ushering in a new hope for the future.