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BSS, Gaibandha

District Nursery Owners' Association (DNOA) distributed interest free loan among the nursery owners' in four upazilas of the district on Thursday.

The loan was given under the post-flood rehabilitation programme. Agro Forestry Improvement Partnership (AFIP) project of inter cooperation provided the fund to recover the losses of the nursery owners' caused by devastating floods in last year, sources said.

Deputy Commissioner Abu Mohammad Yousuf formally distributed the loan to the beneficiaries as chief guest at a function at Public Library auditorium in the town here.

With DNOA Chief Abdul Mottalib in the chair, it was addressed, among others, by local agriculture officer M Mozaffar Rahman, officer of AFIP Project Khandoker Hossan Abu Obayed and General Secretary of Fulchhari Upazila Nursery Malik Samity M Saidur Rahman.

A total of Taka 4.81 lakh was distributed among 87 nursery owners of Sundarganj, Sadar, Fulchhari and Shaghata upazilas in the district.