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BORO-CULTIVATION
Boro cultivation surpasses target in Narsingdi
Narsingdi, Feb 26, 2019 (BSS) – Cultivation of Boro paddy
in Narsingdi district has surpassed its target this season
due to favourable climate condition and adequate supply of
high quality seed.
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) official sources
said the department has set a target to cultivate Boro paddy
on 55,580 hectares of land in the six upazilas of the
district with the production target of 218,000 tonnes of
clean rice this season. But farmers of the district have
cultivated 600 hectares more land then the target.
The enthusiastic farmers are now busy in nurturing the
paddy fields with the hopes of getting more production of
rice then the target this season.
Deputy Director DAE, Narsingdi Shovan Chandra Dhar told
BSS that to make the cultivation program a success,
Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC)
distributed high quality Boro seed to the farmers of the
district at fair price.
Besides necessary measures have been taken to distributed
fertilizers, insecticides and other agriculture inputs among
the farmers. Different commercial Bank including Bangladesh
Krishi Bank also has been distributed easy term loan to the
farmers.
BSS/CORR/BZC/1130HRS