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NAGAON: The District Agriculture Department on Sunday ceremonially started the distribution of free sali paddy saplings among the flood-hit farmers in the district.
The distribution programme was ceremonially inaugurated by the local MLA Rupak Sarma here at Nagaon Dakorghat village. During the programme, the department concerned distributed free Sali paddy saplings among 14 flood-hit farmers of the village in the first phase and the rest of the flood-hit farmers of Kampur, Nagaon and Raha revenue circles respectively would get the saplings in the next phases of the distribution programme.
District agriculture officer Tarun Hazarika, Subdivisional agriculture officer, Nagaon, Ranjan Kumar Deka, district coordinator to Assam Project on Agri-business and Rural Transmission, Pankaj Hazarika were present in the programme.
Within a month, two recent waves of flood submerged over 1,900 hectares of farmland under Kampur, Nagaon and Raha revenue circles in the district and destroyed all crops and vegetables of the larger areas. The district agriculture department, led by district agriculture officer Tarun Hazarika, initiated various steps to fulfill the requirement as well as aspirations of the flood-ravaged farmers of the district for cultivating Sali paddy. Besides, the department concerned also made all arrangements to nurture Sali paddy, like Bahadur Sub 1 and Bina 10, in 18 community nurseries in over 90 hectares of land for free distribution of saplings among the flood-hit farmers of the district.
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