SZ Kabir: Agriculture is the basic occupation of the people. Whereas the food resources come from agriculture alone, so there is no alternative to agriculture for human life. Therefore, the use of modern equipment in agriculture is increasing day by day. Educated youths are getting involved in farming in Bangladesh. On the one hand, as the agro-crisis challenges are being tackled, new employment is also being created. Besides, the cost and time of crop production is decreasing. Similarly, a young agricultural entrepreneur, Samsul Kabir of Atpara Upazila of Netrokona. In 2008 after graduating from Dhaka University, he started farming. However, at the time of the rice harvest, he would be in problem. Even the agricultural laborers could not get it at high prices. Harvest crops were sometimes wasted on the field, damage was done almost every season. Later he learned about a new farming machine and collected it. With this, he earned more than 0.7 million BD Taka in the last paddy season. The farming machine that is changing the fortunes of Samsul Kabir is the name Combined Harvester. Samsul has bought the Harvester from the Yanmar brand in Japan. With this machine, rice can be harvested, clipped, clipped and filled with sacks. It takes much less time and cost than the conventional method of rice harvesting. There is no waste of paddy in the field. This Combined Harvester has been in the market for several years. However, the Yanmar Combined Harvester came to market last year. Its only distributor in Bangladesh is ACI Motors. Apart from ACI, several other companies have also commercially combined Harvester into the market, which is another brand. On the other hand, Anwar Hossain, a farmer of Phulbari in Dinajpur has also made such a machine in 2012.
Picture: Collected[/caption] According to a study by the Department of Agricultural Energy and Machinery of the Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), crop cultivation, irrigation, weeding and pesticides application has been mechanized by 80 to 95 percent. On the other hand, the use of machinery for planting, fertilizing, cutting, trimming, plowing and drying is less than 1%. Manjurul Alam, a professor of agricultural energy and machinery at the Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), said that 40 percent of the rural labor force is now farming. By 2030 it will be reduced to 20 percent. As a result, there is no alternative but to mechanize agriculture. Instead of physical labor, the interest of young people in farming is increasing with machines. Young people can play a key role in transforming marginal agriculture into commercial agriculture. Production cost is decreasing Young agriculture entrepreneur Samsul Kabir said that the traditional method of cultivating, trimming, plowing and packing of agricultural laborers in one acre of land cost Tk. 11,000 - 12,000. About 7 kg of paddy is wasted per 100 kg of paddy. However, it costs 5 to 6 thousand Taka to use the same use of the Combined Harvester of Yanmar and the paddy wastes only 1 kg per acre. In the traditional way where it takes 10 to 12 workers 2 days to do all the one acre of paddy, the same work can be done with Combined Harvester in just one hour. The two types of Yanmar Harvester are priced between BD Tk. 2.8 to 2.95 million. Work can in mud Sohel Eemu, another young agricultural entrepreneur in Tangail, purchased a Yanmar Combined Harvester earlier this year. Sohel said, "With this Japanese technology, it is possible to harvest paddy and lying paddy on the ground. The device has six sensors, so that it closes automatically when something is dirty or hard. Then clean it up and start working". Source: Prothom Alo
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