Published 05 Mar,2021 via The Financial Express - Poison- free vegetables are being produced in the crop fields of five villages of Elliotganj South Union in Cumilla's Daudkandi upazila.
About 1,200 metric tonnes of vegetables will be produced from the fields this season. This is the lone union in Chittagong and Sylhet divisions where poison -free vegetables have been cultivated. Pesticide- free vegetables are being cultivated in ten such unions of the country. Upazila Agriculture Officer Sarwar Zaman confirmed this information.
Vegetable growers in Tamta, Bitman, Bashra, Viktala and Nayakandi villages of Elliotganj South Union are using new methods to control insects without applying pesticides.
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