RAKUB :: A Massive plan to disburse agriculture loans

Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) has taken a massive plan to disburse agriculture loan to the farmers of the district for cultivation of Boro and Potato including vegetables during the current Robi season. Bank sources said the aim of the loan disbursement is to encourage the growers and help them boost production of crops including vegetables for achieving the country’s food security by 2012 side by side with changing their lots economically. 

The Bank has set a target to disburse a total of Tk300m to the farmers of all the seven upazilas in the district through 24 branches of the bank during the current fiscal. Of the total, about Tk30m had already been distributed to the 987 farmers for boro cultivation, Tk80m to 1014 farmers for potato and Tk17.8m to 822 farmers for vegetables of the district till December 31, 2011 to help them boost production of the varieties. Each of the growers had received the loan ranging from 20,000 to 50,000 from the Bank.
 Deputy General Manager and also zonal manager of the RAKUB Abdul Jalil told BSS that necessary measures had been taken to disburse the targeted loan to the farmers of the district through motivating them by the Bank officials at the field level. About 1, 20,000 hectares of land would be brought under Boro paddy and 9,300 hectares of land under potato cultivation in the district during the current season, said deputy director of DAE AH Bazlur Rashid.