Out-of-season vegetables
Sebul Mia of Bahadurpur village under Juri upazila of the district has gained success in his maiden effort to cultivate off season tomatoes and gourds that has drawn attention of people from different areas.
“I cultivated summer gourds and summer tomatoes on three decimals of land on experimental basis this season. The cultivation of tomato cost Tk 1000 and gourd Tk 1200,” he told this correspondent.
“I have already sold summer tomatoes worth over Tk 5000 and gourds worth Tk 3000. I hope to get Tk 5000 to Tk 8000 more by selling tomato and Tk 2000 to Tk 3000 by selling gourds,” he said.
Sebul Mia said earlier he worked for good salary at a company in Dubai for 13 years.
“After returning home, I remained unemployed for sometime. Later, I became interested in agriculture with encouragement from neighbours Deepak Nath and Abhindranath.
“I got training on 'integrated farming system' and planted 120 seedlings of summer tomatoes and gourds on my land in last June. I have got good yield. I thank the upazila agriculture officer and other agriculture officials for their cooperation,” he said.
Debal Sarker, upazila agriculture officer of Juri, said, “We encouraged Sebul Mia to start a new kind of cultivation. The agriculture office will extend all kinds of cooperation if people like him are interested in innovative agricultural work.”
Local farmers will also be trained to cultivate vegetables on floating beds, he added.
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