• 1 Feb, 2024
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Channel I, the renowned television channel in Bangladesh, has highlighted the success of the C-SUCSeS Project’s Zero Tillage Black Gram technology. This innovative approach efficiently utilizes fallow lands in flood-prone Haor regions for cultivation, providing additional crops to farmers.  The information conveyed by S.K. Russell and the report on Sudipta Mahmud (Channel I). Tune in now to watch the feature directly from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZvlugekcE8

Translations of the full news :

The Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute is actively working on utilizing fallow land for cultivation. In a groundbreaking initiative, a demonstration plot has been established for the first time in Haor on a 10-acre piece of land.

This is Balikhola Haor in Karimganj Upazila of Kishoreganj. For six months, these lands remain submerged, causing them to dry up before rice cultivation. During this time, most of the land remains fallow. To address this, the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) in Kishoreganj has taken the initiative to bring these fallow lands under cultivation.

A beneficiary shared, “Earlier, the quality of the local variety we used to cultivate was not up to the mark. However, with the support and suggestions from BARI officials, we have cultivated BARI Masakali-3, expecting it to be very profitable. BARI has provided fertilizers as well.

Masakali has not ripened yet; it will take another 10/15 days. I hope Bari-3 will be much more profitable than the local Masakali.”

Another beneficiary mentioned, “It helps reduce costs and increases profitability. Farmers are finding this very profitable, as without tilling or cultivation, they are getting additional crops of Masakali. The same fertilizer used for cultivating Masakali in the rice field can also be used for Boro paddy.”

Dr. Mohammad Mahiuddin, the Senior Scientist at BARI Kishoreganj, added, “We started this research last year, and it is evident that farmers in the Haor region are obtaining nutrients through the cultivation of Bari Masakali-3 without traditional cultivation.”

Dr. Debasish Sarker, Director General of BARI, emphasized, “This is an innovation of our scientists. We will continue to bring farmers to the field through the Department of Agricultural Extension in the coming days.”

Working towards the goal that land  will not remain fallow, the Agricultural Research Institute and the Department of Agricultural Extension are actively working