Department of Agricultural Extension has estimated that about 1,96,85,000 tonnes of boro rice were produced in the country during the current 2013-14 season, apparently crossing the official production target. A dry weather condition and lack of natural calamities favored the farmers to get a good harvest of boro paddy, despite the growers suffered a severe shortage of labours, DAE officials said.
According to DAE field service wing, over 99 per cent of boro paddy at the national level has already been harvested by the farmers with good production of the crop.
The government had set a target of boro cultivation acreage at 47.80 lakh hectares of land with production target of 1,89,16,000 tonnes for 2013-14 boro season, officials said.
The growers have actually cultivated boro paddy on some 48.03 lakh hectares during the current 2013-14 crop year, with extra 23,000 hectares of land under boro cultivation, said DAE field service wing director Md. Abdul Mannan.
He told New Age on Tuesday that the DAE has estimated the ‘possible total production of boro’ through using sample crop cutting method across the country.
According to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, 1,87,78,154 tonnes of boro rice was produced during the last financial year 2012-13.
Meanwhile, DAE field level officials informed that production of high yield varieties and hybrid rice was found better during this year.
A super hybrid rice variety– SL-8H, which was newly introduced in Bangladesh, grew the highest yield rate at 10 tonnes per hectare during the current boro season, they said.
The DAE has recently estimated the highest yields of SL-8H boro rice at crop cutting programme in Noakhali and Gopalganj districts.
-With New Age input
