Staff Reporter :
The government has set a target to procure two lakh metric tonnes of Aman rice at Tk 31 per kg in the current season. The Aman price has also been raised Tk one per kg this year compared with last year.
The Aman rice procurement will begin on December 15 and continue till March 15.
Food Minister Qamrul Islam disclosed the decision to reporters on Thursday while talking after a meeting of Food Planning and Monitoring
Committee at the ministry.
The minister said that his ministry had earlier proposed to increase duty on rice import, but it was delayed. As a result, the local market became unstable due to import huge of Indian rice here. He said, farmers will be affected if duty on rice import is not increased.
Qamrul Islam said, the government has decided to increase duty on rice import from the existing 10 percent.
The prices of flour and rice under Open Market Sale (OMS) programme will be decreased from the current prices of Tk 22 and 24 per Kg respectively, he added.
Presided over by the Food Minister, the meeting was attended, among others, by Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Engineer Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury and State Minister for Food Nuruzzaman Ahmed.
The government has set a target to procure two lakh metric tonnes of Aman rice at Tk 31 per kg in the current season. The Aman price has also been raised Tk one per kg this year compared with last year.
The Aman rice procurement will begin on December 15 and continue till March 15.
Food Minister Qamrul Islam disclosed the decision to reporters on Thursday while talking after a meeting of Food Planning and Monitoring
Committee at the ministry.
The minister said that his ministry had earlier proposed to increase duty on rice import, but it was delayed. As a result, the local market became unstable due to import huge of Indian rice here. He said, farmers will be affected if duty on rice import is not increased.
Qamrul Islam said, the government has decided to increase duty on rice import from the existing 10 percent.
The prices of flour and rice under Open Market Sale (OMS) programme will be decreased from the current prices of Tk 22 and 24 per Kg respectively, he added.
Presided over by the Food Minister, the meeting was attended, among others, by Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Engineer Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury and State Minister for Food Nuruzzaman Ahmed.
