When the winter season arrives, delicious dishes including pitha, payas, and puli are prepared at home in every house in the rural areas. And sugarcane molasses is a must in making these dishes. And that is why delicious sugarcane molasses is being made with sugarcane juice in the Jamuna Char area of Sirajganj. Which is in demand across the country.
According to the Sirajganj District Agricultural Extension Department, this season, the target of sugarcane cultivation has been set at 850 hectares of land in Sirajganj district. 600 hectares of sugarcane cultivation has already been achieved. To reduce the demand for white sugar and increase the production of domestic sugar and sugarcane molasses, 120 farmers have been given sugarcane seedlings or seeds as incentives.
Rang Bilas and Philippine black varieties of sugarcane are being cultivated in Sirajganj. Which is very beneficial for the brain development and health of the child. Since the jaggery made from sugarcane juice in Sirajganj is delicious, it is sold to the neighboring districts of Jamalpur, Sherpur, Tangail, Mymensingh, Bogra and other districts to meet the local demand.
Local sugarcane jaggery trader Md. A. Razzak (65) said, he has been doing this business for 5/6 months every year since his grandfather's time. Every year, he buys sugarcane fields during the sugarcane season, makes jaggery from that sugarcane juice and sells it in various districts including Jamalpur, Sherpur, Tangail, Mymensingh, Bogra. Each jaggery is sold at a wholesale price of 2600 to 2700 taka. In this, he earns 2/300 taka from each jaggery, excluding all expenses.
Several artisans including Alhaj, Belal, who make jaggery, said that sugarcane is collected from the fields every day, crushed in a machine, juiced and heated in a big stove to make jaggery. This work is done from 6 am to 6 pm every day as the demand for jaggery increases day by day. 7 to 8 workers work in the jaggery making factory every day.
They earn 6 to 8 hundred taka per day. With this, their family is doing well. Sirajganj District Agriculture Extension Department Deputy Director AKM Munjure Maula said that this time the target of sugarcane cultivation has been set on 850 hectares of land in the district. 600 hectares of sugarcane cultivation has already been achieved. To reduce the demand for white sugar and increase the production of domestic sugar and sugarcane jaggery, 120 farmers in the district have been given sugarcane seedlings or seeds as incentives. Rang Bilas and Philippine black varieties of sugarcane are being cultivated in Sirajganj.
Which is very beneficial for the brain development and health of the child. Since the sugarcane molasses produced in this district is delicious, it is sold commercially in different districts and upazilas every year to meet the local demand.
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