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Price Hike in international market

Cotton farming on increase in Rangpur region

UNB, Rangpur
Cotton farming in the region holds out a bright prospect as the farmers are showing increasing interest in the item.
Encouraged by the higher prices in the international market, the cultivators are bringing more areas of land under cotton farming.
Besides, the Cotton Development Board is motivating the farmers to use their fallow lands for cotton cultivation, official sources said.
Chief scientific officer of Rangpur Cotton Development Board Zillur Rahman said, to boost production in Rangpur division, cotton cultivation has been increased substantially in Rangpur, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat and Kurigram districts in the last several years.
A total of 1,603 hectares of land, having 1,343 under high-yielding variety and 260 under hybrid variety, were brought under cotton
farming in 16 cotton production units of Cotton Development Board in Rangpur division in the 2012-2013 season, he said.
About 3,678 tonnes of cotton seeds and 7,005 bales of cotton fibre were produced in the season, he said further.
In the 2013-14 season, 4,170 tonnes of cotton seeds and 8,340 bales of cotton fibre were produced from 1,813 hectares of land, having 1,441 hectares under high-yielding variety and 372 hectares under hybrid variety, in the Rangpur zone.
Most of the growers in the district are cultivating the hybrid variety on their lands due to rise in its production.
Nawsher Ali Khan, a cotton grower of Ghonirampur village in Taraganj upazila, said he brought 65 decimals of land under cotton cultivation by spending Tk25,000 this season.
He is expecting to collect 30 maunds of cotton seeds
from the land from where hegot25 maunds last year.
Another grower, Nawab Ali of the same village, said he cultivated cotton on one acre of land at a cost of Tk 30,000 with an output target of 40 maunds of cotton seeds this year.
He also said that the cotton growers need not to worry about its price and sale like other crops as the price of cotton is same in all the districts across the country.
Besides, the growers can sell their produce through the Cotton Development Board, he said.
At present, cotton is being sold at Tk2,500 per maund in Rangpur region.
The chief scientific officer said, one lakh to one and a half lakh bales of fibre cotton are being produced in the country against the demand of about 42 lakh bales per year.
Of the total, 70 percent is produced in Chuadanga, Kushtia and Jhenidah districts.