BSS, Jashore :
The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has taken up a massive programme to cultivate summer vegetables in all six districts of Jashore Agricultural Zone, during the current season.
The DAE office sources said under the programme, a target has been designed to produce 10.48 lakh tonnes of summer vegetables from 49,966 hectares of land in six districts of the DAE Jashore Zone.
The six districts are- Jashore, Jhenaidah, Magura, Kushtia, Chuadanga and Meherpur.
District wise summer vegetables cultivation follows as: 15,100 hectares of land have been brought under the cultivation with production target 3,39,750 tonnes in Jashore, 10,200 hectares of land with production target 1,97,370 tonnes in Jhenaidah, 3,525 hectares of land with production target 65,213 tonnes in Magura, 7,350 hectares of land with production target tonnes 1,76,400 tonnes in Kushtia, 8,611 hectares of land with production target 1,63,609 tonnes in Chuadanga and 5,180 hectares of land with production target 1,06,190 tonnes in Meherpur district.
Growers have continued rendering field-level service to cultivate vegetables on the fulfill the targeted land, farmers and officials sources said.
