SILCHAR: A total of 170 beneficiaries were selected for inputs for fish culture under Borjalenga block cluster here on Monday. Under the Assam Agribusiness and Rural Transformation Project 2019-20, a World Bank funded project, six numbers of Farmer Producer Groups were formed for providing financial assistance in the form of fish feed, fish seed and other essential fish culture materials, stated a press release.
A total of 24 metric tonnes of fish feeds and other inputs were distributed by Minister for Fisheries, Parimal Suklabaidya in the presence of Deputy Commissioner, Cachar, Keerthi Jailli, DFDO, Rafiqul Hoque, Nodal Officer, Agriculture Department, Ranjit Sarkar, Block President, Borjalenga, Subodh Das and GP President, Irongmara. The objective of the Assam Agribusiness and Rural Transformation Project is to 'add value and improve resilience of selected agriculture value chains, focusing on smallholder farmers and agro-entrepreneurs in targeted districts of Assam'.
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