Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury on Sunday said the government has provided training to 60,000 farmers on modern cotton cultivation and set up 3,050 demonstration plots under a project for increasing cotton production the country.
“We have undertaken various projects and programmes, including Expansion of Cotton Cultivation Project (Phase-1) at Taka 105 crore in the 2014-15 financial year, ” she told the Jatiya Sangsad while replying to a question from treasury bench member Sukumar Ranjan Ghosh.
The minister said cotton is the main raw material for textile industries and the country has to import cotton for meeting the demand of the textile industries. The country has 5,000 garment factories and 450 spinning mills, she added.
