Narail Correspondent:

The Boro production beyond expectation has brought smiles to the farmers and their family members in three upazilas of the district this season.

Farmers have already completed the harvesting of the paddy from the fields and they did not face any natural calamities during this season.

99.75 percent of the total land has been harvested, according to the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) office.

Nipu Majumder, deputy assistant agriculture officer of the DAE, said a total

of 50,290 hectares of land have been brought under the cultivation in three

upazilas of the district with the production target of 2,30,000 tonnes of

rice. Due to good production and fair price of rice in the last season, Boro rice has been cultivated on 60 hectares more land than the previous year.

Of the total, farmers cultivated Boro paddy on 23,335 hectares of land in Sadar upazila, 10,335 hectares in Lohagara upazila and 16,620 hectares of land in Kalia upazila.

Rifaet Sheikh, a farmer of Kalia upazila, said he cultivated Boro on five

bighas of land and he is happy with its bumper production.

Lecturer Samerandranath Bairagi, a resident of Nayanpur village in Sadar upazila, said: “I have cultivated basmati and rodminicate rice on one and half acres of land and got a bumper production.”

Azahar Gazi from Bichali village said he has cultivated Boro paddy on 50

decimal of land and got 50 maunds of paddy.

Most of the farmers cultivated high-yielding hybrid rice varieties — Ispahani Seven, ACI Company’s Bandhu, Singental Company’s Hira 12, Braxseed’s Sathi, Aftab 106 and Supreme Seed Company’s Hira Six. The indigenous rice varieties include Bri Dhan 74, Bri Dhan 100, 102, Bina 25 and various high-yielding rice varieties were cultivated.

Deputy Director of the DAE Md. Jasim Uddin said to make farming easy and affordable, farmers have been provided with various agricultural inputs including free seeds, fertilizers and pesticides.