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About 6.76 lakh tonnes of Aush rice is expected to be produced from 2.23 lakh hectares of land in Rajshahi division during the current season.
Target has been set to produce 5.38 lakh tonnes of rice from 1.71 lakh hectares of land in Rajshahi, Naogaon, Chapainawabganj and Natore districts under Rajshahi agricultural zone while another 1.48 lakh tonnes from 51,105 hectares in Bogura, Joypurhat, Pabna and Sirajgonj districts under Bogura agricultural zone. Target has also been set to grow seedlings on 11,254 hectares of land to make the transplantation process a total success.
In many areas, the farmers have started transplanting Aush paddy in limited scale and the advanced varieties in particular.
Khayer Uddin Mollah, Zonal Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), said a total of 90,600 small and marginal farmers received seed and fertilizers as incentives worth around Taka 7.08 crore for the cultivation of Aush paddy in the current Kharif-1 season in the division.
The beneficiary farmers were given five kilograms of high yielding seed, 20 kilograms of diammonium phosphate and 10 kilograms of potash fertilizers for aush paddy cultivation on one bigha of land each free of cost under the government’s agricultural incentive programme.
Zonab Ali, 35, a farmer of Rajabari village under Godagari Upazila, received the incentives expressing his gratitude to the government for standing beside them.
