The Bangladesh Rice Research Institute in a project planning workshop on Saturday announced that it would start selling farm machinery soon to farmers at a 60 per cent subsidised price in 20 upazilas of 10 districts under a three-year project being implemented by it.
The BRRI organised the workshop at its auditorium in Gazipur.
BRRI officials said it was for the first time that such a highly subsidised farm machinery marketing project had been undertaken in the country to empower the farmers by encouraging them to buy and utilise different equipments.
They said farm equipments like reapers, threshers, winnowers, urea super granule fertiliser applicators, and weeders had already been procured for selling them to farmers at 60 per cent subsidised prices under the project 'Farm Machinery Technology Development and Dissemination'. The BRRI has been implementing the project from last year.
The officials said a rehabilitation committee in each of the 20 upazilas would select the farmers to whom the equipments would be sold. The upazilas are in Gazipur, Gaibandha, Joypurhat, Rajshahi, Natore, Chapainawabganj, Kushtia, Chuadanga, Chandpur, and Noakhali districts.
Referring to the estimate made by a related study, they said farmers could earn an additional benefit of around Tk 7,000 per hectare on an average by using the machinery.
Scientists and other officials of the BRRI and representatives from different government and non-governmental organisations took part in the workshop chaired by BRRI director (research) Md Khairul Bashar.
BRRI director general Md Abdul Mannan and director (administration) Md Syedul Islam and agriculture ministry joint chief (planning) Nakib Bin Mahbub, among others, also spoke in the inaugural session of the workshop.
Source : New Age
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