Minister Atul Bora takes part in community nursery

HARESWAR BORAH, Nagaon, June 30: The state agriculture minister Atul Bora today participated in a community seeds sowing programme for a community nursery in around 6 hectares of land under 'Brahmaputra Krishak Utpadok Sangstha' at Laokhuwa. The minister himself sat on steering of a tractor and ploughed over 6 hectares of land. The programme was held with a view to supply paddy saplings from the community nursery to the flood-hit farmers of the district soon after the flood. The minister on Wednesday last made an announcement that the department concerned planned to set community nursery for paddy saplings in 90 hectares in the district to distribute saplings among the flood hit farmers of the district and as part of it, the department concerned today initiated the step to produce saplings in around 6 hectares of land at Laokhuwa community nursery. District agriculture officer Tarun Hazarika, senior agriculture officers - Praneswar Nath, Ranjan Pratim Deka, Bishnu Sarma, Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury, Dilip Kumar Bora and other members of Brahmaputra Krishak Utpadok Sangstha were present in the programme, a release added. As per an official report, over 35,000 farmers families of 3,338 villages in Nagaon district were affected by the recent wave of flood in which over 19000 hectares of farmland were submerged by flood water. Earlier, the minister also visited the office of Deputy Commissioner, Nagaon where he held a meeting with the officials concerned of district administration and took stocks of the situation from the officials of district administration.