A day-long training session was held in Madaripur’s Shibchar upazila on Wednesday to equip farmers from riverine char (shoal) areas with modern agricultural skills and technologies.
Organised at the Upazila Agriculture Office’s Farmers' Training Center, the programme brought together male and female farmers enrolled under the char development project in Baheratala Uttar Union.
Presided over by Shibchar Upazila Agriculture Officer Md Alimuzzaman Khan, the event was attended by Md Ziaur Rahman, Project Director at the Department of Agricultural Extension as the chief guest. Project Senior Monitoring Officer Mehjabin Khanum and Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Md Rakib Hasan joined as special guests, alongside Upazila Agricultural Extension Officer Afrina Ali and Sub-Assistant Plant Protection Officer Mizanur Rahman.
During the session agriculture officials introduced participants to climate-resilient farming methods, improved crop varieties and technologies tailored to sandy char soil. Speakers urged growers to adopt modern techniques to boost productivity and farm incomes.
At the end of the training, officials distributed seeds, chemical fertilisers and micronutrients to 24 participating farmers to establish one-bigha demonstration plots each for black cumin (kalojira) cultivation.
