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Tobacco cultivation shows no sign of abating  

Jump to full article: Daily Independent (bd), 2008-12-27
Author: OUR CORRESPONDENT, NILPHAMARI

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Tobacco cultivation shows no sign of abating in Nilphamari.

Sources said, though the government is not encouraging the farmers to cultivate tobacco any more rather it is discouraging the farmers across the country to decrease it the farmers are not paying heed to it.

Although the real quantity of lands on which tobacco is being cultivated in Nilphamari district for the last several years could not be known for lack of information by the Agriculture Extension Department (AED) tobacco is being cultivated on more than 10 per cent arable land in the district.

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