A total of 1,300 small and marginal farmers of Gobindaganj upazila in the district got high quality mustard seed and chemical fertilizers under the government’s agri incentive programme.

A simple function organised by upazila agriculture office was held at the hall room of Farmers’ Training Centre of the upazila town on the occasion on Thursday afternoon with upazila agriculture officer Krishibid Khaledur Rahman in the chair.

Local lawmaker Engineer Monwar Hossain Chowdhury addressed the function as the chief guest while Upazila Chairman Abdul Latif Prodhan, Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Ramkrshna Barman and Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Gobindaganj Thana AKM Mehedi Hasan were present as special guests. The lawmaker said the government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been working relentlessly for overall development of the farmers since 2009.

Later, 1,300 farmers were provided with high quality mustard seed and chemical fertilizers.

Each of the farmers received one-kg of mustard seed, 20-kg of Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP) and 10-kg of Muriate of Potash (MoP) free of cost.