AAPI 7th Quarterly Report Apr-June 2012 - AAPI (Accelerating ...

Area under FDP technology and Farmers Adopting the Technology
Boro 2012 – The last quarterly report (January-March 2012) reported data derived
from the weekly reports of the Field Monitoring Officers (FMOs). The Block Survey 4 was
completed during this quarter and its data is now reported in Table 2. Some 1.886 million
farmers adopted FDP technology in rice on 610,570 ha of land. Seventy percent of the
farmers were in the FTF districts. The area covered for other crops was 323.6 ha with 210 ha
(65 percent) in FTF districts.
Table 3 and Table 4 shows most of the deep placement was urea on rice. Of the
1,886,144 farmers, 8 percent were women. That is, they took a leading role in deciding to use
Table 3. Farmers Using FDP Products in Boro Season 2012
District
A. FtF Districts
Total Guti
Urea Users
Total
NPK
Users
FDP
Users in
Other
Crops
Total FDP
Farmers
Total Male
FDP Farmers
Total
Female
FDP
Farmers
Total
Farmers in
the District
% of
Farmers
Using
FDP
Bagerhat 58,026 - 113 58,026 55,251 2,775 165,285 35
Barguna 836 - 7 836 690 146 138,260 1
Barisal 78,550 - 44 78,550 74,932 3,618 292,616 27
Bhola 79,010 - 383 79,010 73,924 5,086 383,427 21
Chuadanga 68,918 - - 68,918 64,906 4,012 234,344 29
Faridpur 59,227 - - 59,227 54,363 4,864 315,908 19
Gopalganj 87,117 - 46 87,117 75,765 11,352 203,970 43
Jessore 200,906 - 53 200,906 187,766 13,140 522,496 38
Jhalakati 24,982 - 71 24,982 23,345 1,637 115,995 22
Jhenaidah 115,958 - 1 115,958 106,882 9,076 340,912 34
Khulna 51,335 - - 51,335 48,927 2,408 168,415 30
Madaripur 82,720 - 1 82,720 74,269 8,451 204,060 41
Magura 60,962 - 1 60,962 55,947 5,015 191,857 32
Meherpur 45,386 - - 45,386 41,168 4,218 137,603 33
Narail 61,506 - 32 61,506 54,548 6,958 123,517 50
Patuakhali 7,818 - 214 7,818 7,009 809 232,782 3
Pirojpur 32,078 - 224 32,078 29,862 2,216 166,512 19
Rajbari 21,225 - - 21,225 20,104 1,121 152,497 14
Satkhira 103,308 - 91 103,308 95,049 8,259 280,061 37
Shariatpur 82,385 50 50 82,435 69,434 13,001 197,361 42
FtF Total 1,322,253 50 1,331 1,322,303 1,214,141 108,162 4,567,878 29
B. Mymensingh Zone
Mymensingh 372,871 - 721 372,871 328,129 44,742 914,956 41
Sherpur 190,970 - 155 190,970 183,947 7,023 343,676 56
M&S Total 563,841 - 876 563,841 512,076 51,765 1,258,632 45
Grand Total 1,886,094 50 2,207 1,886,144 1,726,217 159,927 5,826,510 32
Source: Boro 2012 block survey, AAPI-IFDC.
Note: Assuming Guti urea users in other crops also the user of Guti urea in paddy.
4 The Block survey is a survey of SAAOs who are the DAE field supervisors of each and every block in the
project area. The SAAOs report the data from various records collected in the course of their duty.
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