Proper agronomic management to boost tea output stressed

Published : 19 Mar 2021, 16:25

Sahos Desk

Experts at an on-field training workshop have stressed on ensuring proper scientific agronomic management using latest technologies in tea cultivation to boost production of quality tea and earn more profits.

Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB) organised the event on ‘Selection of leaves, fertilisation and pest management in tea plantation’ for 60 tea growers at village Zaunia in Baliadangi upazila of Thakurgaon on Thursday, a press release said today.

The event was arranged under the ‘Expansion of Small Holding Tea Cultivation in Northern Bangladesh Project’ of BTB following the ‘Camellia Open Sky School Model’ to reach the latest scientific methods, technologies and tea related services to farmers.

Senior Scientific Officer (Entomology) of BTB and its Project Director for the Northern Bangladesh Project Agriculturist Dr. Mohammad Shameem Al Mamun moderated the on-field practical training workshop.

Assistant Farm Superintendent of BTB Agriculturist Mohammad Sayedul Haque conducted different sessions in the workshop as a resource person.

Agriculturist Haque discussed scientific methods of plantation, selection and plucking of tea leaves, fertilisation, integrated and organic pests’ management, pruning and tipping and other important issues in tea farming on plain lands.

He said plain lands of the five districts of Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, Dinajpur, Nilphamari and Lalmonirhat in the sub-Himalayan northern region are highly fertile and favourable for tea cultivation.

Agriculturist Dr. Mamun said expanded tea cultivation on plain lands has already become a highly profitable venture for farmers speeding up their socioeconomic development and improving living standard in the five northern districts.

“Farmers should continue expanding tea cultivation on plain lands adopting scientific methods and ensuring proper agronomic management to earn higher profits than many other crops for speeding up economic development of the northern region,” he added.

Source: BSS

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