Golam Rabbani, Kalia (Narail)

A project is being implemented in Kalia Upazila in Narail to improve the skills of farmers and increase crop production through the use of modern technology on January 16.

The government's Department of Agricultural Extension is implementing this demonstration project of Boro Bri Rice-92 (Upsi) cultivation in Kalinagar block of Kalabaria Union of Kalia Upazila.

The location of this project is in Talukder Para of Kalabaria Union of Kalia Upazila. The cost of this project is 13 lakh 73 thousand 7 hundred taka.

Kalabaria Deputy Assistant Agriculture Officer Md. Azizur Rahman said that the use of these technologies will save about 30 to 40 percent of the labor cost of the farmers. After seeing the demonstration of simultaneous farming, the farmers will be motivated to use technology and will be able to benefit themselves and increase crop production. He also expressed optimism that it will be possible to produce 180 metric tons of rice on 50 acres of land with this method of cultivation.

Md. Kamal Hossain Talukder of Talukder Para village, a farmer of the simultaneous demonstration, said that with hands-on training in cultivation in this method, the path to 100% mechanization in agriculture will be smooth. Due to this, farmers in this region are being attracted. The crisis of agricultural laborers will also be resolved and crop production will also increase.

Kalia Upazila Agriculture Officer Eva Mallick said that a place has been decided for the demonstration block of Boro Bri Rice-92 (Upsi) rice in the field in Talukder Para of Kalabaria Union. Cultivation is being done using the latest technology on 50 acres of land. For this purpose, the list of 62 farmers has been finalized. Seedlings have been produced by sowing seeds in this method and now the work of transplanting seedlings is going on through rice transplanters.

Agriculturist Eva Mallick further said that with the aim of providing hands-on education in the use of technology, after producing seedlings in trays of this simultaneous demonstration block, the land is being cultivated with a tractor machine and seedlings are being planted. Later, seedlings will be planted with a rice transplanter machine and when the rice is ripe, the rice will be cut and threshed with a combine harvester. She hopes that this will reduce the time and cost of the farmer.