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JATIYA SANGSAD, May 5, 2024 (BSS) - Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder today said the government has provided 70 pc subsidies to farmers in Haor and southern areas and 50 pc to farmers in other areas to buy modern agricultural machineries.

"The government provided modern agricultural machineries to farmers to increase agricultural output and minimize costs of production," he told the House today, while responding to a question from Jatiya Party member Md Mujibul Hoque.
 
The minister said modern agricultural machineries will help farmers to mitigate water crisis in Haor areas during the crop harvesting period, besides, farmers will be able to bring their crops at the warehouse within a short time.

He said that the agriculture ministry's budget maintained a sector "Agriculture Rehabilitation Assistance" for continuing incentive activities and encourage the marginal and small farmers for yielding various crops side by side the agriculture rehabilitation activities.