<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Application of organic and compost fertilizers can increase crop productions, reducing use of chemical fertilizers side by side with substantially improving soil health.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Use of organic fertilizers also help to maintain ecology, bio-diversity and environment and reduces the risks of pest attacks in the crop field.</div><div><br></div><div>Deputy Director, Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Mohammed Saidur Rahman said application of organic and compost fertilizers could increase crop production by up to 15 percent along with improving environment.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>He said use and production of organic fertilizers has been increasing in all the six upazilas of the district where farmers have now set up huge faith on heaps of compost, vermin compost and farmyard compost fertilizer.</div><div><br></div><div>"Cultivators of the district are well aware of using the soil components. They do not use chemical fertilizer haphazardly or unnecessarily as it destroys the production capacity of their land. Now they are using organic fertilizers including cow-dung and water hyacinth which help to retain the production capacity of cultivable land" he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The cultivators also know that repeated use of chemical fertilizer lessens the fertility of soil to a great extent.</div><div><br></div><div>Deputy Director said that chemical fertilizers usually have one or two ingredients but a plant requires at least 13 ingredients for its survival and proper growth. He said enriched compost fertilizer which is a mixture of bio and chemical components has almost all the ingredients that a plant needs. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas&nbsp;</div>