The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Lalmonirhat

Speakers at separate meetings here on Monday have underscored the need for increased use of compost fertilisers for increasing crop productions as well as improving soil health.

They said preparation costs of compost fertilisers are much lower than those of the high cost chemical fertilisers, which have huge negative and harmful impacts on soil health, environment, bio- diversity and ecological balance.

They also said that said that the country's food security could be attained through ensuring maximum utilizations of the cultivable lands using compost fertilisers to produce more crops including high valued crops and vegetables.

They said this while addressing two separate orientation meetings titled 'Encouraging Farmers in Preparing Compost Fertilisers' at Patgram and Hatibandha upazila parishad auditoriums for the farmers of the localities on Monday.

The upazila administrations and the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) organised the orientation meetings to encourage the farmers in producing more and more compost fertilisers though making the ongoing compost heaps programme a social revolution.

Patgram UNO Kazi Abu Taher and UNO of Hatibandha upazila Lutfar Rahman chaired the meetings respectively those were attended by Deputy Commissioner of Lalmonirhat M Ala Uddin Fakir as the chief guest.

Deputy Director of the DAE, Lalmonirhat Aftab Uddin Khan and the concerned Upazila Agriculture Officers were present as the special guests. They said that food security has become the most important issue now in every country with no other alternative to increasing production of all varieties of crops to meet the local food demand for ensuring both national and global peace, stability and social harmony.

They also stressed the need for acquainting the farmers with the latest agro-technologies and knowledge of modern agriculture, providing them with the facilities for easily getting quality seeds and inputs for increasing agri-productions using compost fertilisers.

They specially emphasized the need for vegetables-based cropping patterns to meet the deficit in agro-productions side by side with meeting nutritional demands and enabling the farmers getting maximum profits of their produced crops.

They expressed their confidence that the greater Rangpur area also could play the most vital role in producing and utilizing the maximum quantity of compost fertilisers to increase food productions and reviving the changing ecology and improving the soil health.