The government is set to provide Tk40.04 crore as incentive to increase the area and cultivation of aman crop this year.
Under the package of incentives, 5 lakh 66 thousand small and marginal farmers in 61 districts will get necessary seed and fertiliser for cultivating aman, according to an official release on Wednesday.
Every farmer will get five kg high yielding variety (HYV) T-aman seed, each 10-kg Di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) and Muriate of Potash (MoP) fertiliser free of cost for cultivating aman paddy on one bigha of land.

The incentives will be provided from the agriculture rehabilitation assistance and seed and seedlings sector of the regular agriculture ministry’s budget.
A government order to this end has already been issued by the ministry. Field level disbursement of the incentives distribution programme will start soon.