Farmer Zahurul Islam is happy with the Bumper yield of the Expensive Spice Cumin in Raninagar

Naogaon representative: Cumin is a valuable spice cash crop. At present, the entire demand of cumin in the country is imported from abroad. And Jahrul Islam Badal, a modern farmer of Shiala village in Raninagar upazila of Naogaon, has responded to the area by cultivating this valuable cumin in an experimental manner. Just as Jahurul is happy with the bumper yield of this experimental cumin cultivation, other farmers are also getting interested in cumin cultivation. Visitors from different parts of the country are constantly flocking to see cumin cultivated in the soil of the country.

Farmer Zahurul Islam Badal said that he has been cultivating various expensive high-yielding vegetables for a long time. Zahurul was encouraged to cultivate cumin as the price of cumin was high in the market. After seeing its cultivation method online, he collected 500 grams of purple flower cumin seeds from India, spending about 1 thousand rupees. Then, on the advice of the local agriculture department, Zahurul Islam sowed cumin seeds on 5 hundred acres of land in the same way mustard is cultivated. As many flowers as there were on the tree, cumin seeds caught. Now cumin is ripe. He expects to get 10 to 12 kg of cumin seeds from 5 acres of land. The aroma and taste of cumin grown in Jahurul's land is unmatched and much better than the cumin available in the market. There is absolutely no disease and no irrigation is required. Therefore, farmer Zahurul thinks that it is possible to be more financially profitable by cultivating such expensive spice crops in the soil of the country with less cost and less effort. It takes 3 to 3 and a half months after sowing the seeds of this winter crop to harvest cumin at home. Farmer Zahurul Islam has proved that it is possible to grow cumin and other expensive spices in the soil of Naogaon, which is known as the food store of the north.

He said that in the future he will cultivate cumin on more land. Motaleb Hossain, a visitor from Gabtali area of ​​Bogra, said that he had come to see the cumin plant for the first time in the country. The smell of cumin grown in Zahurul Bhai's land is incomparable. If more farmers cultivate cumin, this import-dependent crop can be easily available in the market at a lower price in the future. So I will also plant cumin in some land like Zahurul bhai. Ekdala Union Parishad Chairman Engineer. Shahjahan Ali said it is interesting that a kind farmer of my area Zahurul has succeeded in cultivating the expensive spice crop cumin. Zahurul has set an example by getting bumper yield in cumin cultivation. If it is possible to introduce the practice of cultivating other expensive crops like cumin in the upazila through more interested farmers like Jahurul, then the dependence on imports will decrease and the people of the country will easily get these products at a low price. Upazila Agriculture Officer Agriculturist Farzana Haque said we have been successful in experimental cumin cultivation. Through Krishak Jahurul, it became possible to convey a message to the farmers of the entire country that it is very easy to grow expensive spices like cumin in our soil.

Through this cumin cultivation, we learned that it is possible to grow cumin like mustard. Apart from this, the cost of cumin cultivation is also very low as there is less disease attack and irrigation is not required. I think cumin cultivation in Naogaon has a promising future. Therefore, all those interested in cultivation of cumin and other new expensive crops will be provided by the agriculture department.