Rumi Akter Polly of DOT
[2] Agriculture Minister Dr. Abdur Razzak emphasized the supply of quality seeds among farmers to increase food production to combat possible shortage of food due to coronavirus, reports banglanews24.com. [3] Inaugurating the distribution of seeds free of cost program by the Buyer Crops Science Ltd. from his official residence, he said efforts are underway to augment the production during the Aman and Robi seasons. [4] The Buyer Crops Science informed that they would distribute free of cost high productivity quality seeds of paddy and vegetable.
among one lakh small and marginalized farmers in 51 districts in collaboration with the Agriculture Extension Directorate. Some 300 metric tons of paddy seeds would be distributed among 50,000 farmers by June and 50,000 farmers by November, reports kalerkantho.com.
[5] Agriculture Secretary Mohd. Nasiruzzaman, German Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Fahrenholz and Buyer South Asia Senior Representative D. Narayan were among other present at the event.