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BSS, Rangpur

Research findings of a Non- Government Organization (NGO) shows bright prospects for expanded cultivation of green gram (mug daal), which will meet the country's demand for pulse side by side with bringing huge profits for the farmers in northern Bangladesh.

Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS) revealed this information here today based on its commendable success in conducting filed level research works on pulses and farming of green gram in the region over the past few years.

RDRS conducted the research works jointly with Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agriculture University (BSMRAU), officials said. While narrating their success, Agriculture Coordinator of RDRS and a PhD student of Jahangir Nagar University M G Neogi told BSS that green gram could be cultivated in larger scale in only two months everywhere in Bangladesh.

Quoting from the research results, he said green gram could be one of the most profitable major cash crops especially in the Monga-prone greater Rangpur and Dinajpur districts as its cultivation is more profitable than that of other crops.

"Over 70 percent of the total cultivable lands having better dewatering facilities are fit for cultivating the green gram," Neogi said madding, the farmers after harvesting potato can sow green gram seeds in the same land by March and get the crop within only 60 days.

He also said that the farmers could cultivate T-Aman paddy in the same land in June/July by adopting the 'Aman-Potato-Gram rely-method cropping pattern.'