Free seeds and chemical fertilizers have been distributed among 1,370 small and marginal farmers under the Agricultural Incentive Programme during the Rabi season in 2024-25 fiscal in Bajitpur upazila of Kishoreganj.
According to the upazila agriculture office, 1,370 farmers from 11 unions of Bajitpur upazila and Bajitpur municipality area have been provided with chemical fertilizer and the seeds of wheat, corn, mustard, sunflower, peanut, onion, and different varieties of lentil free of cost to increase the production during the Rabi season.
Bajitpur Upazila Executive Officer Farashid Bin Enam inaugurated the distribution programme on Bajitpur Upazila Parishad premises on Wednesday.
Upazila Agriculture Officer Ashraful Alam, Bajitpur Municipal Executive Officer Md Arif Akand, Deputy Assistant Plant Conservation Officer Md Mostafizur Rahman and sub-assistant agriculture officers of various unions of the upazila were present at that time.