Farmers in the eight upazilas of Rangpur district are delighted with good yields of early Aman rice this season, and many across the district are busy cutting the ripe crop. According to the district agriculture office, Aman has been grown on 166,960 hectares in Rangpur this season. Early Aman has so far been cut on 435 hectares: 205 hectares in Rangpur Sadar upazila, 225 in Kaunia upazila, 2 in Mithapukur upazila and 3 in the metropolitan area.
According to the Department of Agricultural Extension, Aman has been grown this year on 621,550 hectares in the five districts of the Rangpur region: Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Rangpur, Gaibandha and Nilphamari. The production target is 2,001,391 tonnes of rice. Early varieties of Aman were grown on 33,000 hectares.
Abu Bakar Saiful Islam, additional director of the agricultural extension department in the Rangpur region, told BSS: “Cutting has already begun on early Aman planted on high land. Early Aman is harvested until about the middle of October, and the main season’s Aman harvest will start at the beginning of November. With less flooding this year, early Aman production has met expectations.”
He said that after cutting early Aman, farmers grow maize, early potatoes, vegetables and other winter crops.
Mahmuda Khatun, additional deputy director of the agricultural extension department in Rangpur, told BSS that Aman had been grown on 166,960 hectares in the district this year, of which early Aman had been cut on 435 hectares. The yield of early Aman was 3.15 tonnes a hectare.
She said farmers in the district would sow rabi crops right after cutting early Aman. Farmers hope to get good prices from rice and rabi crops together. The yield was as good as last year’s, she said.
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