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Harvesting & Field Day for Hybrid Rice & Maize

ACI Field Crops Seed arranged a number of harvesting and field day programs over the country during the harvesting period of Rabi crops. In May 2018, 30 Field Days and 9 Harvesting Programs based on ACI Hybrid Rice “ACI-6” were conducted at Cumilla, Rangpur, Dinajpur, Rajshahi, Jhenaidah, Jashore, Magura, Kushtia, Mymensingh, and Netrokona; reaching around 1500 farmers. All those programs were conducted by the Principal Company “MAHYCO” in association with ACI Seed. Participating farmers and dealers became highly motivated and they were confident enough to promote ACI-6 through those effective result demonstration programs. It was predicted that about 300 MT of ACI-6 will be sold in the coming season with about 42% sales projection over last year. Lead farmers, prominent dealers, local leaders, UAO, SAAO, RSM, ASM, PM, representatives from principal company and journalists of local newspapers i.e. Akash Khabar, Somoyer Samikaran, Paschimanchol etc. attended the programs. Mr. Ashraf Hasan, Product Executive-Field Crops Seed coordinated all the events.

On the other hand, 16 Harvesting & Field Days on ACI Hybrid Maize, i.e. Don, PAC 139, Shahi & Profit have been conducted in Cumilla, Manikganj, Dinajpur, Bogra & Chuadanga districts during the harvesting period of Maize (April-May 2018). Approximately more than 1000 farmers attendant the field days. The varieties from ACI performed better across the country. About 377 MT of Hybrid Maize was predicted to be sold in next season with approx. 47% sales projection over last year. Mr. Sudhir Chandra Nath, Head of Business-ACI Seed; Mr. Golam Mostafa, Portfolio Manager-Maize & Potato; Regional Manager of respective region, lead farmers, dealers, local leaders and journalists of local newspapers attended the programs.