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Our Correspondent, Netrakona

Farmers of Netrakona district has started taking preparations for planting Aman saplings on their farm lands. Sources said, many farmers have stasrted rendering field-level service round the clock for making their agricultural lands suitable for Aman cultivation. They have already rose Aman-saplings on their seeds beds.

District Agricultural Extension Department (DAED) office sources said, A massive T-Aman cultivation programme has been designed in Netrakona district during the curret Aman season.

Under the programme, a total of 1,38,100 hectares of lands would be brought under the T-Aman paddy cultivation in the upazilas of the district.

Of the total lands, 85,160 hectares of lands would be brought under high yielding variety (HYV) of the paddy and 52,940 hectares of lands would be brought under the local variety of the paddy, the sources said. The experts of the DAED have fixed a target for producing more than three lakhs metric tons Aman paddy in the district, the sources added.