Jamalpur farmers to get vegetable seeds worth over Tk 7 lakh

Agriculture Department has taken an incentive programme on vegetable cultivations, involving Tk 7.15 lakh, for flood-affected farmers in the district during this Robi season.

Under the programme, 7140 small and marginal farmers who lost crops in the recent flood will get the incentive on five vegetables.

According to the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) office sources, each farmer will get seeds for the cultivation of vegetables on 13 decimals of land. The vegetable seeds are tomato, aubergine, red amaranth, malabar spinach and bottle gourd.