The new trend of cultivating bottle gourd in summer in Jhalakathi has brought the farmers a noticeable success with the vegetable’s massive harvest.
Farmers in different villages of the district cultivated bottle gourd in various swampy land with stagnant water and reaped harvest of the vegetable, which is usually grown in summer, exceeding the target.
Under the BRAC Agriculture and Food Security Programme, 44 farmers of Baharampur and Basanda unions of Jhalakathi sadar upazila cultivated bottle gourd on 36 bighas of land and got bumper production.
This is the first time the farmers cultivated the vegetable in water logged land.
The farmers are getting good prices as well as earning handsome amount of money from it.
BRAC has trained the farmers in cultivating different types of vegetables, including bottle gourd.
The farmers are getting financial benefit by cultivating different varieties of gourd.
Farming of bottle gourd needs small quantity of fertiliser and pesticides.
The growers use organic fertiliser and feramon sex to kill harmful insects.
As a result, the production cost is less.
Jhalakathi Deputy Commissioner Shakhawat Hossain along with Upazila Nirbahi Officer Rouf Mia visited some vegetable fields at Baharampur village in Binoykathi union and encouraged the farmers.
Union chairman Enamul Haque Elin Sardar and BRAC officials were present on the occasion.
