The cultivation of Banglamoti variety of rice has been gaining popularity among the farmers in Bagerhat creating a new hope for them.
According to farmers, BRRI-50, invented by Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, known as Banglamoti rice, is suitable for boro season. The size of the variety is better than Indian and Pakistani 'basmati rice'.
Officials in the Department of Agricultural Extension in Bagerhat said this newly developed variety of rice could become a blessing for those farmers of southern region who incurred huge loss after rice cultivation due to salinity in soil.
The commercial cultivation of Banglamoti had been expanding day by day as farmers achieved success in experimental cultivation, he said.
Two plots were made to cultivate Banglamoti rice on experimental basis at village Shyamnagar at Fakirhat
in 2010.
As a huge quantity of rice was produced in the plots, some 101 hectares of land were brought under cultivation this season where farmers achieved 6600kgs rice per hectare.
Mehedi Hasan, a farmer of village Aruadanga at Fakirhat, said he had cultivated Banglamoti rice on three hectares of land this season as its cultivation seemed profitable than other varieties of rice.
Bagerhat DAE deputy director, Abdul Gafur, said per hectare production cost of the variety was Tk 60,000 and farmers could earn profit of Tk 2 to 2.5 lakh from each hectare, he said. 'The seeds of Bangla-moti rice are being preserved to expand its cultivation in nine upazilas of the district,' he said.
Source: New Age
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