SM Suman Rashid:
In Amtali, Barguna, farmers have cultivated mustard in more or less all over the place. The fields painted yellow are like mustard fields decorated with colorful decorations. Farmers have cultivated seasonal mustard this year as well, refraining from cultivating paddy this season. Mustard has been cultivated on 150 hectares of land this year. Seeing the growing trees and flowers, the farmers are dreaming of a bumper mustard harvest.
This year, after touring the fields of all the mustard farmers in the upazila, it was found that the target of mustard cultivation this year was 150 hectares. On the advice of the upazila agricultural office, the farmers cultivated Bina Sarisha-9 on that fallow land. Apart from this, the farmers cultivated three high-yielding varieties Bina-4, Bari Sarisha-14 and Bari Sarisha-15 in excess.
Farmers cultivate high-yielding mustard in early November, and the mustard harvest comes within 100 days. With the increase in oil prices, farmers are turning to mustard cultivation to obtain nutritious oil, said the Upazila Agriculture Office.
Rokan Khan, a farmer from Baithakata village in Chawra, said, “We cultivate this type of mustard almost every year. This year, we cultivated it with the advice of the Amtali Upazila Agriculture Office. Hopefully, the crop will be bountiful.”
Malek, a farmer from Atharogachia, said that the yield has been good this year. This year, a possible mustard crop will come to the fields.
Amtali Upazila Senior Agriculture Officer Md. Icha said that farmers have cultivated Bina Sarisha-9, Bari Sarisha-14 and Bari Sarisha-15 on 150 hectares of land in Amtali Upazila. The yield has also been good.
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