, April 12 -- A total of 22,065 farmers have been initially selected to receive 'Farmers Cards' as the government is set to launch the distribution programme on Pahela Baishakh, said Agriculture Minister Mohammed Aminur Rashid on Sunday.

The programme will be formally inaugurated at Shaheed Maruf Stadium in Tangail, he said at a press conference at the Information Department conference room at Secretariat.

He said the initiative will be launched on a pre-piloting basis in 11 blocks under 11 upazilas across 10 districts in all eight divisions.

Distribution of the cards will begin simultaneously in most of the selected blocks on the day while the programme in Aranyapur block of Adarsha Sadar upazila in Cumilla will start on April 17, 202...