About 65,500 tonnes of summer vegetables is expected to be produced in the district during the current season due to favourable weather conditions.
Deputy Director of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Narsingdi Mohammad Azizur Rahman said if the favorable climate condition prevails in the couple of weeks the above mentioned production would be achieved.
He said some 68,200 hectares of land have been brought under summer vegetables cultivation in six upazilas of the district in the current season.
Officials of the DAE encouraged the farmers to cultivate poison free vegetables avoiding chemical fertilizers and using organic fertilizers.
Now the farmers are cultivating poison free vegetables in the district. This year farmers have cultivated poison free vegetables over 1,500 hectares of land in the district.
Different kinds of summer vegetables like lady's finger, kakral, koida, cucumber, potal, borboti, pumkin, brinjal, dondul, karala, poishak, datashak, arum, dram stick etc grow aplenty in Shibpur, Belabo, Raipura and Sadar upazilas of the district.
Narsingdi district, a vegetable surplus area, usually supplies 30 to 40 percent of its total production to the capital and other districts after meeting the local demands.
A number of poor families in different upazilas of the district achieved economic self-reliance through vegetable farming during the last couple of years.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha