low paddy prices
Chapainawabganj boro farmers fear low paddy prices
Farmers in Chapainawabganj, who complained about not getting the fair prices of paddy in Aman season, are now busy with boro crops hoping to recoup their losses but some of them are apprehensive of another bad season.
There is no shortage of fertiliser, seed and irrigation, but farmers are worried about getting fair prices. They said bringing down the prices of fertiliser and cost of irrigation will be helpful for them.
“We’ve been incurring losses for the last few years,” said Aminul Islam, a farmer from Bechenda area of Nachol upazila. He took loans for cultivating paddy but could not pay installment.
The price of aman was far below their expectation, the farmers said. In the 2018-19 fiscal year, Bangladesh produced 153.363 lakh metric tonnes of aman rice against a target of 140.839 lakh metric tonnes, according to the annual report of the Department of Agricultural Extension.
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