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After completing harvest last week, farmers have produced 1,20,275 tonnes of mustard seeds in all five districts of the Rangpur agricultural region during the 2025-2026 Rabi season. At the same time, farmers are currently happy getting rewarding prices between Taka 3,300 and Taka 3,800 per mound (every 40 kg) of the highly profitable oil seeds in the local markets. Market sources said that the prices of mustard seeds may go up to Taka 4,500 per mound in the coming months across the region. Earlier, the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) had set a record
target of producing 1,46,281 tonnes of mustard seeds from 90,568 hectares of land for the Rangpur region during the current 2025-2026 Rabi season. The record target of producing mustard had been fixed, aiming at attaining self-reliance on the production of edible oils from locally produced mustard and other oilseeds.
The DAE, Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation, Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI), and Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) extended assistance to farmers to make the mustard Cultivation programme a success.
The government also distributed quality mustard seeds and fertilisers as incentives among small and marginal farmers to cultivate mustard for expanding cultivation to enhance production of the crop.
"However, farmers had finally brought 78,045 hectares of land under mustard
farming, which is 86.17 percent of the fixed farming target this time in the region," Additional Director of the DAE for Rangpur region Krishibid Md Shirajul Islam told the news media. Due to crop diversification across the region and the cultivation of potatoes and corn on more land, it was not possible to achieve the agricultural targets set for this season.
Being inspired by motivational activities being conducted by the DAE, farmers are showing interest in cultivating high-yielding varieties of mustard like 'Tori 7', BARI-9, BARI-14, BARI-15, and BINA-4 across the region to get high yields in recent years.
Talking to BSS, farmers Abdul Haque, Aminul Islam, and Mansur Ali of different villages in Kawnia upazila of Rangpur said they got a bumper yield of mustard this season.
Farmers Nur Islam and Anwar Hossain of village Mohipur in Gangachara upazila and Mofizar Rahman of Dolapara village in Taraganj upazila of Rangpur also got bumper production of high varieties of mustard this season. They sowed mustard seeds after harvesting short-duration Aman rice on the same land to enhance crop intensity and reap more profits.
"We have cultivated Boro rice on the same land after harvesting mustard this season, like in the previous years," Mofizar Rahman added.
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Source: Online/GFMM
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