GAIBANDHA, Sept 2, 2020 (BSS) – A total of 7121 flood affected farmers of the district will get seedlings of T-Aman paddy from the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) during the current season.
Officials said the flood took place in the district in July several times resulting in damaging a number of Aman seed beds prepared by the farmers, making them worry about production.
To recover the losses caused by the floods, the DAE took initiatives to distribute seedlings of T-Aman paddy to the affected farmers, setting up community seed bed at the medium high land here.
It also set up floating and tray seed beds of T-Aman paddy for helping farmers in the district and the seedlings have grown well in the seed beds.
The seedlings from the community seed bed would be distributed to the 7000 affected farmers, seedlings from the floating seed beds to 25 and the seedlings from the tray seed bed to 96 affected farmers of the district during the current season.
As the seedlings in the seed beds have become matured, the seedlings are being uprooted from the seed beds aimed at distributing those to the affected peasants.
Earlier, director general of the DAE Dr. Abdul Muyeed formally inaugurated the seedling distribution to 660 affected farmers of Sadullahpur Upazila in the district on 28 July as the chief guest.
Apart from it, the seedlings are also being distributed to the affected farmers of the seven upazilas in the district by the DAE officials and the upazila level administrations.
Deputy Director (DD) of DAE Krishibid Masudur Rahman told the BSS the distribution of the seedlings of the late variety Aman paddy including nazirshal would be completed very soon.
In reply to a query, he said a list of the affected farmers had been prepared earlier by the field level sub assistant agricultural officers (SAAOs) to help them recover their losses caused by the floods in the month of July.
He himself and other high officials of the DAE were monitoring the seedlings distribution activity all the time to avoid any irregularities, he concluded.