Most of the areas of Deulbari Dobra union of Nazirpur in Pirojpur are submerged in water for half of the year. However, this does not stop the lives of the people of these areas. Using the waterlogging, farmers are producing vegetable seedlings and making seed beds with a new method.
About 25 kilometers east of the upazila, it was seen that the green saplings of gourd are growing in the water amid waterlogging. The farmers here are also cultivating bitter gourd, beans and other seasonal vegetables.
Farmers said that not only gourd, bean, Jhinga, and bitter gourd, but also pepper, ginger, sweet pumpkin, garlic, onion and papaya seedlings can be produced after mixing soil and dung fertilizer in the floating method. If there is no flood, there is a huge profit in this cultivation.
According to the local Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), floating seed beds have been built on 157 hectares of land in Nazirpur and Nesharabad upazila of the district this year. Based on this, the government has taken up a project called Production, Research and Expansion Programme.
District DAE Deputy Director Dr Md Nazrul Islam Sikder said that the method is cultivated on the land of Deulbari and Dobra of Nazirpur and Baldia union of Swarupkathi. He said that day by day, the cultivation of various vegetable saplings is being expanded in the floating system in the low-lying lands of about 25 districts of the country.
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