The government will provide around Tk 7.49 crore as incentives to farmers to boost jute cultivation across the country.
A total of 3,36,600 small, marginal, and medium farmers would get free seeds, according to a press release on Thursday.
Each farmer will get one kilogram BJRI Tosha Pat-8 (Robi-1) seeds for one bigha of land under jute cultivation, it added.
The disbursement of the intensives will start soon at the field level, said the press release.