Chirirbandar Upazila Agriculture Officer Mohammad Mahmudul Hasan has taken a new initiative to protect the farmers from loss by cultivating vegetables in Chirirbandar of Dinajpur.
With the help of Deputy Assistant Agriculture Officers, he has introduced agri-friendly medical services for farmers called 'Mobile Crop Clinics'. Various varieties of vegetables have been cultivated in different parts of the upazila. But farmers are not relieved by cultivating vegetables.
Eating vegetables is an attack of various diseases in unfavourable weather. Various diseases including leaf rot, decay of trees, death of roots, discoloration of trees, falling of flowers and fruits.
Even by applying pesticides, the disease is not being cured. So, the farmer spends his days in fear of loss. The Chirirbandar Upazila Agriculture Department has taken such an initiative to allay the worries of the farmers.
According to department sources, about 23,320 farmers of Chirirbandar upazila cultivate different varieties of vegetables in 60 hectares of land and have been suffering from various diseases since the beginning of the vegetable season.
They buy various types of pesticides from the market and apply them on vegetables and paddy but they do not get much fruit. For this reason, the Agriculture Department inaugurated the clinic at Krishnapur village of Auliapukur union of the upazila on Monday morning.
On that day, the officials of the agriculture department gave various kinds of advice to about one thousand farmers
Chirirbandar Upazila Agriculture Officer Mohammad Mahmudul Hasan said it was not possible to give door-to-door agricultural advice to 23,000 farmers in the upazila.
Therefore, crop treatment has been arranged through mobile clinics at the union level. He said that there has been a huge response among the farmers to come to this clinic and take medical advice on crops.
