MANIKGANJ, Sept 6, 2022 (BSS) - The Department of Agriculture Extension
(DAE) is distributing Black gram (Mashkolai) seeds and fertilizers as special
incentives among 4,000 poor and marginal farmers in the district, DAE
officials said.

  The preparation of distribution of seeds and fertilizers has already been
started among 4,000 farmers to cultivate Mashkolai in their lands in the
district during the current season.

The DAE officials said each of the famers is getting 5 kgs of black gram
seeds for one bigha of land as incentive. The marginal farmers are also
getting necessary fertilizers, including 10-kg Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP)
and 5-kg Muriate of Potash (MoP) free of cost.

  Abu Muhammad Enayetullah, Deputy Director of DAE, said the list of small
and marginal farmers of the district is being prepared from union parishad
level by a committee comprising with sub-assistant agriculture officer and
the chairmen and members of the respective unions, adding that the seeds and
fertilizers will be distributed according to those lists.

 Deputy Director of DAE said the char areas of the two big rivers the Padma
and Jamuna are popular for Mashkolai cultivation.

 Deputy Director also said the present pro-farmer government is distributing
special agriculture incentives among small and marginal farmers which is
encouraging the farmers to cultivate crops in due time and they are getting
good production as the government distributed quality seeds among the
farmers.