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DHAKA, Aug 22, 2026 (BSS) - The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has asked the concerned officials to complete nationwide farmers and dealers’ data collection, verification and updating by Aug 26.

DAE’s Director General M Abdur Rahim gave this instruction on Thursday.

The DAE has asked all the upazila agricultural officials to take necessary steps to accomplish the works correctly within the scheduled time frame. 

The farmers and fertilizer dealers data collection will be continued as part of providing farmer card, but accuracy and completeness of the information must be ensured along with regular verification and approval of the collected data, said the DAE order.

The DAE asks to collect fertilizer dealers data through the existing app. 

The DAE officials have been asked to continue data collection regularly at the concerned blocks of the upazila and the upazila agriculture officials also will regularly verify and approve these collected datas.

In first phases, the farmers data collection of two blocks has already been completed and then the concerned upazila officials have asked to collect the data of another two blocks by August 23.

At the same time, the DAE also has asked the upazila agriculture officials to end the farmers data collection of all the blocks of a particular upazila by August 26.

Initially, the data of the dealers belongs to Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) and Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) will be collected.

Instructions have been given to include the name of all blocks under each union into the system as no blocks would be left out, the order said.

At the same time, the DAE order also has asked the information of all mouzas and villages of a particular block to include under the block and officials will have to ensure the accuracy and completeness in the every stage of the data collection, verification and approval.

As part of the farmer card programme, the data collection, verification and updating will be continued.

The DAE is conducting a nationwide data collection campaign for the government's Farmer Card (Krishok Card) program, which aims to distribute digital smart cards to 16.5 million farmers over the next four years.

Following the program's official launch by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Pahela Baishakh (April 14, 2026), a massive field-level data collection drive began across all upazilas.

Under the facility, the enlisted farmers will get direct access to financial incentives, cash aid of Tk 2,500 and transparent agricultural subsidies without middlemen.