Masumuzzaman, N’ganj
Food production deficiency occurs every year for more than seventy per cent people of Narayanganj. Twenty nine lakh forty eight thousand and two hundred seventeen people live in six hundred eighty three square kilometers area in the district whose food need is four lakh sixty five thousand one hundred ninety two metric tons.
According to district agriculture extension office, there have food production deficiency 3,30,715 metric tons every year. As the unplanned factories establishing and others way grabbing crops land the food production especially paddy yielding growing down day by day.
Deputy Director of agriculture extension office in Narayanganj Kazi Habibur Rahman told the Bangladesh Post that there has only 46,774 hectares cultivable land. In that paddy, cultivable land is 34038 hector. Three kinds of paddy Aus, Amon, Boro are production that reaches 1,34,477 metric tons every year.
“No possibility to increase paddy production due to environment and other circumstances” Habibur Rahman adding that we have to trying grow more alternative crops such as potato, fruit and others vegetables. Almost seven hundred roof gardens of fruit are already producing different categories vegetables.
All the five upazila areas day by day turned into industries zone so that farmers are being bound to sell their land to the industry owners. Among the five upazila there were maximum cultivable land in Sonargaon, Araihazar and Rupganj upazila. Rupganj upazila is as nearer the capital city thus it turning into town very speedy.
Araihazar upazila was mostly crops cultivable lands but there also establishing industry as the land is cheapest than any other upazila areas. Farmers who are the still in farming profession urged the government that the industrial zone to be select as their crops yielding do not harm.
In the Sonargaon upazila, a good number of farmers are victimizing from the industrial wastage and do not producing their crops.
