Char people reaping rewarding profits from pumpkin cultivation
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RANGPUR, Jan 29, 2021 (BSS) – Many char people are reaping rewarding profits currently from pumpkin farming using intercropping and relay methods on char lands and dried-up riverbeds in all five districts of Rangpur agriculture region.
Officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) said char people are getting lucrative prices of newly harvested pumpkin now to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic situation along with recouping crop losses they incurred during last year’s floods.
Deputy Director of the DAE at its regional office Agriculturist Md. Moniruzzaman said an increasing number of landless char and riverside people have cultivated pumpkin with other Rabi crops on char lands adopting intercropping and relay methods.