Farmers happy with maize price in Panchagarh

The farmers are happy getting fair price and bumper production of maize in the district.

This year, the weather was dry which was conducive for maize harvesting as the farmers has completed its cut off.

The farmers can produce 45 to 50 maunds of maize on one bigha (33 decimal) of land by spending Taka 10,000 to 12,000 and can sell it at Taka 36, 000 to 45, 000, the agriculture sources said.

Now maize is being sold at Taka 800 to Taka 900 per mound in local market.

The farmers of char areas along the river of Karatoa in sadar upazila and other parts of the district have harvested a bumper production of maize.
The price and demand of maize is high this year, according to farmers and Department of Agriculture Extension.

Maize cultivation in char areas and some other place of the district are on the raise as most of the land in this reason is sandy where other usual crops do not grow well, official sources said.

The farmers of the char areas cultivated maize at low cost and at the same time the selling price is high.

Abbas uddin, a farmer of Debiduba village, said that he cultivated maize on two bighas of land this year and earned over Taka 55,000 deducting the cost of production. Traders from different parts of the country come here to buy maize and they supply maize to different district including Dhaka, Dinajpur and Natore.

The department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) said 14,201 hectares of land have been brought under maize cultivation with the production target one lakh 20 thousand metric tonnes of maize.

The farmers of the district are also showing keen interest in low-cost maize cultivation as it requires less fertilizer and irrigation, said deputy director of DAE Abdul Matin. (BSS)