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The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Khulna Zone has begun distribution of seeds and fertilizers instead of cash money to 1, 56,900 listed farmers of the region.
Each of the farmers is getting the incentives for 10 types of agriculture crops against one bigha (33 shatak) land to increase Rabi Crops production in the current season.
Officials of the DAE said the incentive in terms of seed and fertilizers is being distributed among the farmers to assist them in cultivating 10 varieties of different crops during the current Rabi season.
“Of those, the DAE is distributing agri-incentives for wheat, mustard, groundnut, sunflower, onion, and four kind of pulses (Mug, Mosur, Khesari, Arohor),” said Md Rafiqul Islam, Additional Director of the DAE Khulna region today.
Under the programme, each of the beneficiary farmers is receiving one to 20-kg seed of different crops, 10 to 20-kg ammonium Phosphate (DAP) and five to 10-kg Muriate of Potash (MoP) fertilizers free of costs to cultivate crops on one bigha of land.
Md Rafiqul Islam said the farmers are getting incentives as per the guidelines of the Ministry of Agriculture. They are getting seed and fertilizers from the authorized dealers of the government.
“Monitoring and rehabilitation committee headed by UNO in each upazila is distributing th government incentives,” he said.
Farmers of the region are now very busy of producing Rabi crops, vegetables, he said, adding that government has taken various steps for increasing production in the agricultural sector.
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