Expanded parija paddy farming stressed for food security

Daily sun, 28 July 2012

RANGPUR: Speakers at a crop cutting ceremony yesterday stressed for expanded farming of off-season indigenous parija paddy as an additional crop for ensuring food security amid adverse climate.

They were addressing the ceremony of parija paddy cutting and a discussion organised by RDRS Bangladesh at the filed of farmer Esarul Haque in village Khoragach under Sadar upazila of Lalmonirhat yesterday.

With Programme Manager of Lalmonirhat Unit of RDRS Bangladesh Ziaul Islam in the chair, former union parishad member of local Pancha-gram union parishad Abdul Kuddus attended the cere-mony as the chief guest. —BSS

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