Experts for adoption of scientific methods to boost tea production

Experts at an on-field practical training workshop have stressed on adopting scientific methods and latest technologies in tea cultivation on plain lands to further boost its production.

Bangladesh Tea Research Institute of Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB) organised the event on ‘Selection of leaves, fertilisation and pests’ management in tea plantation’ for 60 tea growers under its ‘Expansion of Small Holding Tea Cultivation in Northern Bangladesh Project’ at Mareya union in Panchagarh on Thursday, a press release said today.

The workshop was arranged following the Camellia Open Sky School Model to expand small-scale tea cultivation through reaching the latest scientific methods, technologies and tea related services to farmers to further boost tea output in five northern districts.

Senior Scientific Officer (Entomology) of Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB) and its Project Director for the Northern Bangladesh Project Agriculturalist Dr. Mohammad Shameem Al Mamun moderated the training workshop.

Development Officer at BTB’s Panchagarh Regional Office Agriculturalist Md. Amir Hossain and its Assistant Farm Superintendent Agriculturist Mohammad Sayedul Haque conducted different sessions in the workshop as resource persons.

Agriculturalist Md. Amir Hossain elaborately discussed plantation, selection and plucking of tea leaves, fertilisation, integrate pests’ management (IPM) and pruning and tipping and other important issues in tea plantation on plain lands.

Dr. Mamun said plain lands on the Kartoa Valley ecological zone comprising five northern districts of Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, Dinajpur, Nilphamari and Lalmonirhat are highly fertile and favourable for tea cultivation.

“Expanded tea cultivation on the small-scale basis on these plain lands has already unveiled a new horizon of economic prospect for farmers and common people speeding up their economic development in the northern region,” he added.

He urged farmers for expanding small-scale tea cultivation adopting scientific and organic methods on plain lands in these five northern districts to earn higher profits than many other crops and speed up economic development of the region.

Source: BSS