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, said 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.