Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury on Wednesday said the government will distribute Aus paddy seed and chemical fertilizers worth Taka 40 crore among the 2.37 lakh small and marginal farmers across the country free of cost to increase the production of the crop.
“Seed and fertilizers worth Taka 32,33,53,170 will be distributed for Ufshi Aus among the farmers of 64 districts while seed and fertilizers of Taka 29,30,075 will be distributed for Nerika Aus in 40 districts,” she told journalists at a press briefing at her ministry’s meeting room at secretariat here.
The minister said a total of Taka 39,62,83,245 will be spent for distributing seed and fertilizers and because of this incentive, Aus paddy will be cultivated on about 2,37,182 bighas of land.
