50 Lakh Families Will Get Rice at Tk 10

Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzak said that the price of fine rice has gone up but the price of coarse rice has not gone up. We are worried about the poor people who work hard. For them, we are giving rice through OMS. In a few days, rice will be distributed among 50 lakh poor families at the rate of Tk 10. The government has reduced taxes on some foods, including edible oil.

He said this while visiting Bangladesh Rice Research Institute at noon on Saturday (March 12).

The minister said the price of food grains in the country has risen slightly due to the Ukraine-Russia war but the government is making every effort to keep the prices at a tolerable level.

Abdur Razzak said, "We are working to make all agriculture, including fisheries, poultry, and paddy, scientific and modern, so that agriculture becomes profitable." Under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, we are working to build a poverty-free, hunger-free golden Bengal. Bangladesh will soon become a prosperous developed country.

The minister said work was underway to include the NBR in the poultry, fish, and dairy industries in the agricultural farm category instead of the industrial sector.

At the time, the visiting Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Qu Dongyu, secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture Mohammad Sayedul Islam, Additional Secretary Ruhul Amin Talukder, Executive Chairman of BARC Sheikh Mohammad Bakhtiyar, FAO ADG Jung-Jin Kim, Dhan Research Kabir, etc were present there.