DAE DG directs for making agri activities successful

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BSS, Rangpur :
Director General (DG) of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) AZM Mamtazul Karim has directed his field-level officials to further increase food output through making the ongoing agricultural activities successful.
The DG made the directions while addressing different occasions arranged in Rangpur, Dinajpur, Nilphamari and Panchagarh districts under Rangpur and Dinajpur Agriculture Regions during his two-day field level visits on Monday and Tuesday.
Director of the Horticulture Wing of the DAE Agriculturist Sunil Chandra Dhar and its Rangpur Regional Additional Director Agriculturist Pratip Kumar Mandal accompanied the DAE chief during the visits that ended today.
During the visits, the DG of the DAE exchanged views on various issues with his officials at district and upazila levels in Rangpur, Dinajpur, Nilphamari and Panchagarh and directed them for making the Boro and Aush rice cultivation programmes successful.
He inaugurated a farmers training course under the “Technology Transfer for Farmers Training (2nd Phase) Project at Nilphamari Sadar Upazila Farmers’ Training Centre and another training for sub-assistant agriculture officers at Burirhat Horticulture Centre in Rangpur.
The DG laid foundation stone of Upazila Farmers’ Training Centre at Tentulia upazila in Panchagarh, being built under the “Technology Transfer for Farmers Training (2nd Phase) Project” for transferring agricultural technologies among the local farmers.
He visited the acquired land sites for conducting construction works of the Plant Quarantine Centre at Banglabandha under Tentulia upazila in Panchagarh and Sadarpur Horticulture Centre under Sadar upazila in Dinajpur.
The DG visited two Livelihood Field Schools (LFSs) in village Rasalgethi under Sadar upazila in Nilphamari and Joyram village under Mithapukur upazila in Rangpur to see the ongoing agricultural activities under Integrated Agricultural Productivity Project.
He talked to members of different farmers’ groups, exchanged views on ensuring their nutrition and food security through integrated farm activities and visited their success on cultivation rice, wheat and vegetables seed during his visits to the LFSs.
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