Joypurhat peasants expect good mustard output

JOYPURHAT, Feb 05: The mustard seed farmers of Joypurhat district are expecting a good yield this season due to favourable weather condition and timely supply of necessary agro-inputs. 

The mustard trees are growing well across the district as the farmers are taking good care defying adverse weather conditions. 

"I have cultivated high yield mustard on five bighas of land spending Tk 25,000 aiming to become financially self-reliant," said farmer Faruq Hossain under Akkelpur upazila.

He said, "I am expecting over 28 maunds of output from the crop land."

The farmers begin harvesting the crop from the first week of February and continue till March.  Getting repeated plentiful production and fair market price previous year, good numbers of farmers are now engaged in mustard cultivation commercially across the area this season.

Farmer Golam Rabbany under Pachbibi upazila said, he mostly depends on mustard cultivation every season. He used fungicide, pesticides along with chemical fertiliser at his mustard field during the time of tilling the land, he said.

Deputy Director of DAE Sudhindranath Roy said fungicide and pesticides is boosting the production of farmer's crops including mustard seed. 

The farmer show more interest to grow the crops as its cultivation is easy and lucrative, he added.

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