Manikganj Correspondent: The Aush cultivators in all the seven upazilas of the district are expecting a bumper production of Aush as the favourable climatic situation is prevailing all over the district, the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) said.
 
According to the DAE, they had set a target to produce 16,748 tonnes of clean rice from 5,000 hectares of land in the district during the current season. Of them, 500 hectares of land was cultivated in the sowing system and 4,500 hectares of land was cultivated in the planting system.
 
To boost the Aush farming, the government distributed agro-incentives among 3,400 poor and marginal cultivators of the district, a DAE official said, adding that each of the farmers got five kilograms (Kgs) of quality seeds including 10-Kg of Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP) and 10-kg of Muriate of Potash (MoP) free of cost for cultivating Aush paddy on one bigha of land.

The allocated incentives were distributed among the farmers in due time, the sources added.
 
The Deputy Director (DD) of the DAE Abu Mohammad Enayet Ullah said the present pro-farmer government is distributing special agro-incentives among the small and marginal farmers which is encouraging them to cultivate crops in due time.

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