“The DAE had fixed a target of bringing 3,360 hectares of land under ginger cultivation to produce 51,870 tons of ginger during the Kharif-1 season ,” Additional Director of the DAE for Rangpur region Agriculturist Muhammad Ali told BSS. Under the intensive of spicy crop farming program, farmers finally have cultivated ginger 3,165 hectares, 195 hectares less than the fixed farming target, in all five districts of the region. The farmers have cultivated ginger on 1,145 hectares in Rangpur, 305 hectares in Gaibandha, 406 hectares in Kurigram, 370 hectares in Lalmonirhat and 939 hectares in Nilphamari. Talking to BSS, farmers Alef Uddin, Khorshed Alam, Abdus Sattar, Nur Mohammad and Abdul Hakim of Rangpur Sadar upazila said they have already begun harvesting their cultivated ginger. “We are selling newly harvested ginger cultivated during the Kharif-1 season at lucrative rates between Tk100 and Tk120 per kg to the local ginger traders,” said farmer Mohsin Ali of Kathihara village in Rangpur Sadar upazila.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 12, 2020 07:30 UTC