Chandpur is one of the major riverine agricultural areas of the country. The Meghna, Padma, Meghna, Dhanagoda, and Dakatiya river flows through the district. That’s why it is easy to produce large quantities of summer vegetables in the river basin for agricultural production like Rabi, Ayush, Aman, and Boro.
In Chandpur, the planting of vegetables this winter is 5,500 hectares and the production target is 1 lakh 20,700 MT.
This information has been given in the annual report of the Department of Agriculture Extension, Farm House, Chandpur.
According to the information received, the cultivation of vegetables in Chandpur Sadar this year is 10,555 hectares and the production target is 22,957 MT.
The target is to cultivate in the Matlab North 1,165 hectares and the production target is 25,350 MT.
This means cultivation in the Matlab South is 330 hectares and the production target is 7,425 MT, cultivation in Hajiganj is 715 hectares and production target is 15,558 MT.
Cultivation in Shahrasti is 405 hectares and the production target is 8,813 MT, in Kachua 850 hectares and the production target is 18,496 MT.
Cultivation in Faridganj is 635 hectares and the production target is 13,818 MT, in Haimchar 1,209 hectares and the production target is 13,818 MT.
Especially in 11 isolated char areas of Chandpur, this vegetable is widely cultivated. Women play a major role in the production of these vegetables.
Working day and night, they are busy in the production of these vegetables. In some areas, they have been cultivating vegetables on a large scale commercially. Their main livelihood is agriculture, vegetable cultivation, and the rearing of livestock.
In Chandpur, after rice, jute, potato, soybean, onion, garlic, mustard, and chili, there is a place for vegetables.
It is quite profitable now. The vegetables produced in Chandpur are shipped to ports in different cities of the country.
Due to favorable climate, transportation facilities, the interest of farmers in vegetable cultivation, improved communication system, availability of agricultural inputs, availability of agricultural implements, advice of agriculturists on seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides, provision of agricultural loans from banks, etc. farmers are eager to cultivate these vegetables.
Especially in the char areas of Chandpur, the farmers produce a lot of vegetables. Unfortunately, the banks are not giving agricultural loans to the farmers in the char areas. If the farmers got loan assistance, they would be more enthusiastic about cultivating vegetables.
Correspondent: Abdul Ghoni, January 24, 2022