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IRRI-Boro Cultivation

Farmers face setback for want of saplings

Our Correspondent, Lalmonirhat
A large number of farmers are facing a setback in the ongoing season for IRRI-boro cultivation due to acute crisis of matured saplings.
The seedbeds were damaged by severe cold and dense fog for which the paddy target may not be achieved this year, farmers feared.
Farmer Manowar Hossain at Dhairkhata village in Sadar upazila said he prepared a seedbed on 15 decimal lands to cultivate IRRI-boro paddy on four bighas land but more than one fourth of the saplings were damaged due to heavy cold and fog.
"I have cultivated two bighas and I will be able to cultivate around one more bigha of land, while the rest one bigha may remain uncultivated for want of
matured saplings," he said, adding that many farmers in the village are facing similar trouble.
Farmers Azizar Rahman, Naresh Chandra, Mafizul Islam, Kalam Miah and many others at Saniyazan village in Hatibandha upazila said their seedbeds for IRRI-boro saplings were affected by heavy cold and fog-
Seedbeds which were prepared a little late had saplings not matured enough for sowing in the field, they said, adding they were now searching for matured saplings for cultivation.
Farmer Narayan Chandra of Chalbala village in Kaliganj upazila said, in case they failed to collect matured saplings from local people they would have to purchase those from another district.
Department of
Agriculture Extension (DAE) officials in Lalmonirhat said, at least 2,287 hectares of land were prepared for IRRI-boro saplings to cultivate the paddy on 53,600 hectares in five upazilas of Lalmonirhat this year.
Of the total seedbed area, 1,500 hectares were prepared within the scheduled period while 787 hectares were prepared a little late.
These 787 hectares were hit by severe cold and dense fog for which the samplings on these seedbeds could not grow up properly, they said.
Deputy Director (DD) of DAE Abdul Mazid said that farmers can use the cold-hit samplings if do it very carefully.
There is no saplings crisis in the district, he said adding, agriculture officials had always advised the farmers on how to save saplings from cold and fog.