Published 10 May,2021 via The Financial Express - The government will provide incentives worth Tk 2.92 billion to 0.2 million more farmers of fisheries and livestock sector to help them offset their financial losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
"We (the government) will provide Tk 2.92 billion more as an incentive to the fisheries and livestock farmers to overcome their corona induced financial losses. The process for giving incentives to them is now on," Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim told the media at his secretariat office on Sunday.
He said that his ministry had earlier disbursed Tk 5.54 billion from its two projects to 0.4 million farmers of the fisheries and livestock sector to help them withstand the losses caused by the pandemic.
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