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Jhenaidah jute farmers disappointed over untimely flowering


Published : 01 Jun 2021 08:10 PM

Jhenaidah jute farmers have become disappointed as the jute plants offering huge branching and untimely flowerings in the growing stage. This might hamper the growth and production of the once golden fibre when the farmers had started getting better prices of the hard earned crop in last few years. 

Farmer Asaduzzaman of Shailkupa upazila in  Jhenaidah when contacted said he had brought his three bighas of land under the jute farming in the season. He was expecting 41-42 maunds of the fibre in the season. 

But he was disheartened when the plants started branching and offering huge flowering in the growing stage. It will decrease the growth and he now cannot harvest a decent amount of fibre from the jute plots. Yahiya Zaman Ba nshi and some other farmers had sown MSC Krishi Sebayan and Nabin variety of seeds for jute farming in the season.

According to the office sources of the department of agriculture extension (DAE)  in Jhenaidah, the farmers in Jhenaidah Sadar, Kaliganj, Kotchandpur, Moheshpur, Shailkupa and Harinakundu had cultivated their 22, 860 hectares of land in the current season as against the target for 22,83 6 hectares.

When contacted assistant deputy director (ADD) crop wing of the DAE in Jhenaidah Mosharraf Hossain admitted the huge branching and untimely flowerings in the growing stage of the jute plants. 

He said it may happen so when some of the farmers might sow government supplied jute seeds meant for producing seeds. Further, low quality or date expired seeds might cause this sort of problems.

DAE field level officials always advise the farmers to sow quality and government approved seeds for proper germination as well as yield. They are expecting a total of 54,900 tones of jute fibre in the current season if the climate was favourable, Mosharraf Hossain said.