Tk 8.47 cr to be distributed as incentives among 73,870 farmers in Khulna

BSS, Khulna :
The Government will distribute special incentives worth about Tk 8.47 crore among 73, 870 small and marginal farmers of Khulna agriculture region during the current season.
Each farmer will get incentive against one Bigha (33 shatoks) land to enhance the Rabi Crops production during the current season, official sources said .The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) of the Khulna Zone has been completing list of farmers of the region to distribute the incentives.
Officials of the DAE said the incentives, in terms of seed and fertilisers, will be distributed among the beneficiary farmers to assist them in cultivating eight varieties of crops during the current Rabi season.
 “Of those, distribution of Agri-incentives for wheat, maize, mustard, groundnut, BT brinjal and Boro rice crops to be completed by this month while distribution of summer (sesame) ‘Tiil’ and moonbeam will end by December,” said Md Hafizur Rahman, Acting Additional Director of the DAE Khulna regional office.
Under the programme, each of the beneficiary farmers will receive one to 20-kg seed of different crops, 10 to 20-kg Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP) and five to 10-kg Muriate of Potash (MoP) fertiliser free of cost to cultivate crops on one Bigha of land.