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Jute cultivation progressing fast in Netrakona

April 19, 2021 00:00:00


NETRAKONA, Apr 18 (BSS): Cultivation of jute in the current Kharif-1 season is progressing fast in the district.

Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) office sources said a target was fixed to cultivate jute on 4,930 hectares of land in the district with a plan to produce 43,987 bells of jute this season.

Of the total targeted land, 230 hectares of land would be brought under olitorious variety of jute, 820 hectares of land under capsularies variety of jute, 3450 hectares of land under Knaf variety of jute and 430 hectares of land would be brought under Mesta variety of jute.

Meanwhile, the jute cultivators could cultivate 2000 hectares of land under the jute cultivation in the ten upazilas of the district, deputy director of DAE Netrakona Habibur Rahman said, adding that if the weather condition remains favourable, the cultivators would be able to cultivate jute in the rest of the targeted lands within the next fortnight.

By this time, at the directives of the government, different state-run agencies including BADC and BCIC also continued supplying of improved quality jute seed.


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