JAMLPUR, July 9, 2023 (BSS)-The Department of Agriculture (DAE) has taken 50 acres of land under synchronize T-Aman cultivation in Melandah Upazila in the district this Kharip-2 season.

According to the DAE office sources, the incentive amounting Tk 12 lakh 88 thousand was allotted to implement the programme.

Under the programme, a total of 50 acres of farm land at an area will be brought for the cultivation. In the land same variety of T-Aman crop will be cultivated which will benefit 50 to 150 farmers.

The government will provide seeds and fertilizer free of cost to the farmers. Besides, the government will bear all the cost of planting seedlings by rice transplantation machine and crop cutting by harvester machine.

Deputy Director of the DAE Zakia Sultana said the aim of the programme is to bring land under cultivation of same crop and same variety in a larger scale so that the farmers can use agriculture machineries in planting and harvesting crops in a same time. In this process the farmers can produce more crops with less cost, she added.