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Aman farmers beam with delight due to good yield, fair price

Star National Desk
Aman farmers are happy with good yield as well as fair price of the major paddy this season, according to reports from several districts.
Farmers in Lalmonirhat district are now busy in the field to harvest the paddy, said our correspondent.
Now one maund (40 kg) of aman paddy is selling for Tk 640 to 710 in different markets in the district while the production cost of a maund of paddy was Tk 420 to 450, farmers said.
Officials of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) in Lalmonirhat said aman was cultivated on 81,085 hectares of land against the target of 77,078 hectares in five upazilas of the district this year.
Farmer have got at least 120 maunds (4.8 tonnes) in each hectare of land this year but it was only 90 to 95 maunds last year, they said.
Anwar Hossain, 62, a farmer at Kashinath village in Lalmonirhat Sadar, said, "I cultivated high yielding flood tolerant aman paddy on 68 decimals of land this year and got 25 kg of paddy in each decimal. It was only 18 kg last year."
"I received seed and technical support from the IRRI-STRASSA Project of NGO RD RS to cultivate the variety. I will cultivate it on more lands next time," he said.
Favourable weather condition including timely rain helped bumper aman yield this season and its price is good too, said Abdul
Mazid, deputy director in Lalmonirhat DAE.
Mamunur Rashid, agriculture and environment coordinator of NGO RDRS said, "Now the farmers apply scientific method for cultivation. They do not use excessive fertiliser and insecticides in their croplands."
Our Gaibandha correspondent reports: Aman production in Gaibandha district is likely to see increase this season as farmers brought total 1,27,800 hectares of land under aman cultivation against the target of 1,22,227 hectares and the weather was favourable, said sources of DAE.
DAE officials are expecting 3,26,423 tonnes of rice yield in this season.
" I have harvested 18 to 20 maunds of HYV of aman crop per bigha of land, as weather and flood was almost favourable this year," said Kamrul Hasan, a model farmer of Kholahati union in Gaibandha Sadar upazila.
This season the farmers are getting fair price of the crop that is now selling for Tk 730 to Tk 775 per maund, said Dipok Pal, a farmer of Badiakhali village in Sadar upazila.
UNB adds from Sherpur: Farmers in the district are happy with the good yield as
well as reasonable market prices of aman paddy.
Good aman harvest was expected this season in the district as weather condition remained favourable, prices of fertiliser and other inputs were relatively low while pest attack did not affect the crop, said growers and agricultureofficials.
Sherpur DAE had set a target to bring 87,393 hectares of land under aman farming in the district this season but farmers cultivated aman on more areas ofland.
"I cultivated aman on four acres (one acre=30 decimals) of land spending
Tk 7,000-8,000 per acre and got 35-36 maunds (each maund = 37.32 kg) of paddy from each acre. The new paddy is selling at Tk 800 per maund and I hope to get profit of Tk 30,000-32,000 by selling my produce," said Abdur Razzaque, 45, of Baromari village in Nalitabari upazila.
Agriculturists said growers sowed high quality aman seeds like BINA-7, BR-49 and local early variety Basmati Dhan while the DAE officials provided the farmers with training and necessary instructions to get better yield.