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Farmers are passing busy times transplanting Boro rice seedlings on their farmlands in all the ten upazilas of Netrakona during the current month of January.
Officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) said the DAE has designed a massive program to produce 7,76,775 tonnes of clean Boro rice from 1,84,470 hectares of land in the district during the current Rabi season.
Under the program, the farmers will produce 2,04,475 tonnes of hybrid variety of Boro rice from 41,300 hectares of land, 5,72,000 tonnes of high-yielding variety (HYV) of Boro rice from 1,43, 000 hectares and 300 tonnes of local variety from 170 hectares of land.
Meanwhile, the Boro cultivators have transplanted the Boro rice seedlings on 1,51,409 hectares of land in the district.
The government has provided agricultural incentives to small and marginal farmers of the district to make them capable to run Boro cultivation without facing any problems.
Talking to this BSS correspondent, deputy director (DD) of DAE Netrakona Mohammad Nuruzzaman said, under the agriculture incentive-giving program, the government has already distributed 240 tonnes of improved variety of Boro seeds, 320 tonnes of MOP and 320 tonnes of DAP fertilisers among the 72,000 small and marginal farmers.
Apart from this, the government has ensured a proper supply of improved quality Boro seeds, fertilisers and other irrigation and agricultural equipment to the doorsteps of the Boro cultivators through different state-run agencies including BADC and BCIC to help them, he said.
"The government has also been ensuring uninterrupted supply of electricity through power development board (PDB) and rural electrification board (REB) to keep the irrigation machinery including deep tube wells and shallow tube wells of the farmers operative round the clock", he informed.
Following directives of the government, different state-run commercial banks including Bangladesh Krishi Bank are disbursing Boro crops loan among the Boro cultivators to assist them in running their Boro cultivation network without facing a financial crisis, the DD said.
The crops specialists and field-level officials of the DAE are rendering their field-level service to let the farmers know about the modern methods of Boro crops cultivation through using the latest technologies and reducing production costs, the deputy director added.
