Farmers to get subsidy for seed in next Boro season: Dr Razzaque Farmers to get subsidy for seed in next Boro season: Dr Razzaque News Desk
Agriculture Minister Dr M Abdur Razzaque
Thursday said the government will provide
subsidy to the growers in the next Boro
season for buying seed with a target to
increase Boro production.
“The growers will get subsidy for
purchasing seeds in the next Boro season
to raise Boro rice production”, the
minister said in a press briefing at the
ministry’s conference room here ahead of
the World Food Day.
Under the programme, farmers will get Taka
10 subsidy against purchasing one kilogram
of seed.
In the current Aman season, the minister
said the government has provided seedlings
at free of cost and financial assistance
for transplant aman cultivation as
recently several floods have damaged the
seedlings and standing Aman crops.
Dr Razzaque told the briefing that due to
the government’s timely initiative from
the very beginning of the corona pandemic,
the rice production has significantly
increased nearly to 3.87 crore tonnes in
the current fiscal year.
Even the government led by Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina has given top priority on
agriculture with an instruction that even
an inch of land would not remain
uncultivated with a fear of possible food
shortage.
About 34.517 lakh tonnes of Aus rice have
been produced in the current 2020-21
fiscal year which is 4 lakh tonnes more
than the last year.
Apart from this, the minister said over
1.40 lakh family orchards have been set up
in 4397 unions across the country spending
Taka 37.36 crore. Additional 100 family
orchards also will be set up at every
union on the occasion of the Birth
Centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman.
Agriculture Secretary M Nasiruzzaman was
also present during the press briefing.
Under the agriculture rehabilitation
programme, a total of 2,39,631 small and
marginal farmers got free agricultural
inputs including fertilizer and seed at a
cost of Taka 17.54 crore.
In addition to this, more 9,29,194 flood
affected farmers will get free assistance
of Taka 75 crore for cultivating wheat,
mustard, peanuts, sunflower, khesari,
onion, chili and tomato.
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