Photo Feature : Mustard field of Bangladesh.
Mustard (sarisa) herbs that give oil from its seeds. Only a few decades ago, mustard oil was the exclusive cooking oil in Bangladesh. The oil, still in many places, is squeezed from the seeds by using traditional grinding mills, called 'Ghanee', which is pulled by a bull through long hours of the day and even throughout the night. Nowadays, mustard oil extraction is done in electric mills.
At present about 0.33 million hectares of land are put to mustard cultivation in Bangladesh with yield of mustard oil in the order of 0.22 million m tons per year. Mustard is grown in almost all the districts, Chittagong, Sylhet, Dhaka, Tangail, Jessore, Bogra, Sirajganj, and Pabna have comparatively higher acreage of land for cultivation of this Rabi crop.
At present about 0.33 million hectares of land are put to mustard cultivation in Bangladesh with yield of mustard oil in the order of 0.22 million m tons per year. Mustard is grown in almost all the districts, Chittagong, Sylhet, Dhaka, Tangail, Jessore, Bogra, Sirajganj, and Pabna have comparatively higher acreage of land for cultivation of this Rabi crop.
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