The New Nation - Internet Edition

Our Correspondent, Thakurgaon

Compost fertiliser is gaining popularity in Thakurgaon district as farmers are reaping higher benefits in terms of costing and crop production by using these homemade fertilizers. Compost fertiliser is seen piled up on the yards of many farmers in the district.

Mostofa Alom of Bhalatoir village in Pirganj Upazila and Shuzzaudholah of Torraya village in Horipur Upazila under Thakurgoan district told the Correspondent today that they were now quite of the detrimental effects of the chemical fertilisers.

The two farmers said they do not use chemical fertilisers indiscriminately or unnecessarily as they are destroying the productivity of their lands. They said most of the farmers of their village are now using organic fertilisers like cowdung as water hyacinth as substitute of the chemical fertilisers a senior official of Agriculture Extension Department (AED), Thakurgaon told the Correspondent that chemical fertiliser have one or two ingredients, but aslant requires at least 13 ingredients forts survival and proper growth.

He added that he enriched compost manure, with is a mixture of bio and chemical components, has almost all the ingredients that a plant needs. He opined that the compost fertilisers could bemuse directly without mixing it with chemical fertilisers on certain Rabi and Aman crops and vegetable. From time immemorial, farmers have been using various kinds of fertiliser to increase productivity of their lands. In primitive age farmers sued to rely totally on the nature.

They did not get the touch of artificiality. But with the beginning of industrial age farming system chemical fertilisers have replaced the natural ones to show farmers the ways to increase the productivity of their land. But there are also some baneful effects of using chemicals. The crops grown out of chemical fertilisers lack taste compared to those grown by busing natural fertilisers.