SYLHET, Oct 03: Farmers in Sylhet division are about to complete transplantation of T-Aman paddy cultivation in the region, DAE officials and farmers said.
Already the DAE's target is surpassed by 3.0 per cent, but on some lower areas the transplantation would be continue till middle of October.
Additional director at the DAE, Sylhet divisional office, Md Altabur Rahman said today, most of the farmers had completed the farming while in some low lying areas it would continue till middle of this month.
According to the report, 1421,430 hectares in Sylhet have been brought under the farming of the paddy, while it is 97,985 hectares in Moulvibazar, 78,145 hectares in Habiganj and 79,653 hectares in Sunamganj.
However, the total cultivated area includes 329,900 hectares of high yielding varieties and 67,313 hectares of local varieties.
The division's target of rice production is set at 973,793 tonnes. It includes 3197, 832 tonnes of rice in Sylhet, 265434 tonnes of rice in Moulvibazar, 205060 tonnes of rice in Habiganj and 183,517 tonnes of rice in Sunamganj district.
Farmers in most of the areas had already cultivated about 397,213 hectares of land as yet, informed the additional director.
The farming is well as yet with a favourable weather, he added, it would continue for two weeks in some areas.
During the last year's T-Aman season farming of the crop was also a good one amid a good weather.
Although the target was higher of 387,150 hecatres last year, the crop was cultivated on 375,800 hectares in four districts of the division, the official said, per hectare yield stood at about 2.8 tonnes from high yielding varieties and 1.6 tonnes from local varieties.
The farmers in different areas couldn't recover the flood damages while many others failed replanting their lands due to the lengthy floods.
Repeated and prolonged floods that season had damaged T-Aman crops on 5650 hectares, affecting a total of 43,782 farmers in the region.
