The government will provide Tk 8.10 crore as incentives to increase the cultivation and production of jute in the country.
Four lakh small, marginal and medium-level farmers across the country are getting free jute seeds under this incentive, read a Ministry of Agriculture press release issued Thursday.
Each farmer will get one kilogram of jute seed for cultivation in one bigha land.
This incentive is being provided by the agriculture rehabilitation support sector under the regular budget of the ministry. The distribution of the incentives at the field level will begin soon.
