NAOGAON, Dec 18, 2024 (BSS) - Farmers are passing their busy times for 
transplantation of Boro rice seedlings on their farm lands in all the 11 
upazilas of the district during the current season.
 
Officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) said the DAE has 
set a target to cultivate Boro on 1,92,920 hectares of land with the 
production target of 8,72,530 tonnes of rice in the district.

Of the total land, 19,450 hectares would be brought under hybrid variety and 
1,73,470 hectares of land would be brought under high yielding variety, Abul 
Kalam Azad said, deputy director of the DAE.
 
Farmers have prepared seedbeds on 3,250 hectares of land to produce Boro 
paddy seedlings.

The government has provided agricultural incentives to small and marginal 
farmers of the district to make them capable to run Boro cultivation without 
facing any problem.

Of the total land, 18,580 hectares would be brought under Boro paddy 
cultivation in Sadar upazila, 1,800 hectares in Raninagar upazila, 18,820 
hectares in Atrai upazila, 11,655 hectares in Badalgachi upazila, 28,255 
hectares in Mohadevpur upazila, 19,480 hectares in Patnitala upazila, 18,755 
hectares in Dhamoirhat upazila, 5,855 hectares in Sapahar upazila, 9,845 
hectares in Porsha upazila, 19,685 hectares in Manda upazila and 23,190 
hectares of land would be brought under the cultivation in Niamatpur upazila 
of the district.