The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Rangpur

Rangpur-Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS), a regional NGO, has taken an extended programme for farming mug pulse in the eight districts of greater Rangpur and Dinajpur during this season.

An official of the NGO told BSS that the programme has taken on the basis of its huge successes achieved during the past few years.

Narrating the successes, agriculture coordinator of the NGO, MG Neogi said mug could be cultivated in huge scale everywhere in the country in only two months.

He said that mug could be one of the most profitable cash crops especially in the poverty- and Monga-prone greater Rangpur and Dinajpur region as its cultivation is more gainful than any other crops.

After harvesting potato, farmers can sow mug seeds in the same land by March and can harvest the crop within only 60 days by May to cultivate T-Aman paddy in the same land by June or July under the Aman-Potato-Gram rely-method cropping pattern, Neogi said.

The research showed that mug farming needs no chemical fertilizers and the land regains its lost health and becomes very fertile when the mug plants are mixed with the soil after its harvests to yield more productions of the subsequent crops.

"The farmers got an average yield of 150 kg mug per bigha with a net profit of Taka 9,000 per bigha expending of only Taka 3,000," he added.