Sylhet Correspondent :
Farmers in the greater Sylhet region are now taking preparation to start Aus paddy cultivation.
However, the DAE earlier revised the division’s target from 133,028 hectares to 1176,929 hectares for the season in a bid to recoup the loss of Boro paddy due the repeated and early floods this year, said the Deputy Director of the DAE’s Sylhet divisional office Dr. Mamun Ur Rashid. About 65 per cent of the new target is achieved yet.
Already the farmers had completed raising seedbeds on 9452 hectares of land against the target of 6772 hectares, the official informed.
Meanwhile, 110,113 hectares had already been cultivated till today. It includes, 28,686 hectares in Sylhet, 34,922 hectares in Moulvibazar, 35,270 hecatres in Habiganj and 11,235 hectares in Sunamganj district.
Although the farming would continue till the end of June, the seedbed setting is complete.
In the last year’s Kharif-1 season Aus paddy was cultivated on 134,024 hectares of land in 4 districts of the division.
Meanwhile, under the incentive distribution programme for 28,800 poor and marginal farmers against the last year’s 25,700 in 28 upazilas of 4 disteicts had been completed. Each of the farmers is getting the assistance for one bigha land. It would help farming on 28,800 bighas of land. Each of the farmers was given seeds and fertilizers free of cost. The incentive programme cost was taka 35.9 million, the official added. Of the total, 9300 listed marginal farmers are in Sylhet, 8800 in Moulvibazar and 10,700 are in the district of Habiganj. Upazila level committees, headed by the UNOs distributed the incentives.
The DAE regional office had also sent another proposal for extension of incentive programme for more farmers, the official added.
Farmers in the greater Sylhet region are now taking preparation to start Aus paddy cultivation.
However, the DAE earlier revised the division’s target from 133,028 hectares to 1176,929 hectares for the season in a bid to recoup the loss of Boro paddy due the repeated and early floods this year, said the Deputy Director of the DAE’s Sylhet divisional office Dr. Mamun Ur Rashid. About 65 per cent of the new target is achieved yet.
Already the farmers had completed raising seedbeds on 9452 hectares of land against the target of 6772 hectares, the official informed.
Meanwhile, 110,113 hectares had already been cultivated till today. It includes, 28,686 hectares in Sylhet, 34,922 hectares in Moulvibazar, 35,270 hecatres in Habiganj and 11,235 hectares in Sunamganj district.
Although the farming would continue till the end of June, the seedbed setting is complete.
In the last year’s Kharif-1 season Aus paddy was cultivated on 134,024 hectares of land in 4 districts of the division.
Meanwhile, under the incentive distribution programme for 28,800 poor and marginal farmers against the last year’s 25,700 in 28 upazilas of 4 disteicts had been completed. Each of the farmers is getting the assistance for one bigha land. It would help farming on 28,800 bighas of land. Each of the farmers was given seeds and fertilizers free of cost. The incentive programme cost was taka 35.9 million, the official added. Of the total, 9300 listed marginal farmers are in Sylhet, 8800 in Moulvibazar and 10,700 are in the district of Habiganj. Upazila level committees, headed by the UNOs distributed the incentives.
The DAE regional office had also sent another proposal for extension of incentive programme for more farmers, the official added.
