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‘Govt working to ensure fair price for paddy’

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder on Sunday said the government is working relentlessly to increase food stocks and ensure fair prices for farmers’ paddy aiming to build a hunger-free Bangladesh. “Under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh is now a role model of development in the world which was once termed as bottomless basket”.

The minister was addressing as the chief guest at the foundation stone laying program of Rice Silo and Premix Kernel Factory at Central Storage Depot (CSD) campus in Narayanganj yesterday. Sadhan said, now, one of the major goals of the government is to provide nutritious food to the consumers as food security has already been ensured. Narayanganj Rice Silo and Kernel Factory will play an important role in implementing this goal, he added.

The Minister said food warehouses across the country are being digitalised and thus, from now on, it will be possible to easily know about the food grains stored in the warehouses. Textile and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi said farmers get fair price as the government directly buys paddy from them. Lawmaker Shamim Osman, Food Secretary Dr. Moshammat Nazmanara Khanum and Director General of the Food Department Sheikh Mujibur Rahman also addressed the program.

(AA)

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