BSS, Dhaka :
Agriculture Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque on Sunday said the country will be self-reliant in jute seed production within next three years as a road map has been formulated to this end.
“We hope that the country will be self-reliant in jute seed production by next three years and then the country will not need to import jute seed from India,” he said.
The minister was addressing a discussion and prize distribution ceremony marking the National Jute Day-2022 at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in Dhaka as chief guest.
Razzaque said his ministry has formulated a road map as the country will never be dependent on other countries for jute seed. India usually produces the seed on the infertile land and then exports to Bangladesh, he said.
“Even our local farmers are not interested in cultivating jute seed compared to other crops,” he said, adding that “But our scientists of the jute research institute have developed a jute variety which is comparatively better than India.”
The government has been relentlessly working to make the newly innovated jute seed popular among the farmers, he said.
