Sylhet Correspondent :
The rice procurement programme couldn’t be successful as yet due to short supply of both boiled and Atap (non-boiled) varieties from the millers of Sylhet Division.
However, the authority has extended 15 days for the procurement till September 15, official sources informe.
prepared by the Food Department on August 31, 11,279 tonnes of rice were collected against the target of 38,547 tonnes through the millers of 4 districts.
It is about to be failed due to short supply after repeated flash floods, lack of initiatives by the rice mill owners, absence of marketable surplus of rice or paddy etc. However, the target was also the ever highest for the division this year, official sources informed.
The food department has collected a total of 6,804.550 tonnes of boiled rice against the target of 18,953 tonnes while 13,036 tonnes of Atap rice were collected out of the targeted 19,954 tonnes.
The last year’s rice collection was 15,000 tonnes, the sources informed further.
Regional Controller of Food, Sylhet Division Md. Anisuzzaman told this correspondent, although the target couldn’t be achieved, we have procured the ever highest quantity of rice this year amid different problems. There are 43 husking mills for boiled rice in the four districts and 367 husking mills including nine automatic ones for Atap rice.
The official said further, although we are fully dependent on the private millers for rice procurement, most of the mills in the region are of old technology and the owners were not interested sted in modernising their units for reasons. This is why a good quantity of the paddy produced in the division is transported to other places, having modern husking mills, he added.
If they don’t come forward with modernising the units it would be hard to get rice from such millers in future too, the official added.
Of the total, 1489 tonnes of boiled rice and 3147 tonnes of Atap rice were collected in Sylhet district against a target of 3648 tonnes and 4830 tonnes respectively.
In Moulvibazar, 1874 tonnes of boiled and 1434 tonnes of Atap rice were procured against the target of 3680 and 1854 tonnes respectively.
In Habiganj district 2154.550 tonnes of boiled and 1466 tonnes of Atap rice were collected although the target was at 5216 and 2612 tonnes respectively while procurement in Sunamganj district stood 1287 and 6989.950 metric tonnes against the targeted 6409 and 10298 metric tonnes respectively.
The rice procurement programme couldn’t be successful as yet due to short supply of both boiled and Atap (non-boiled) varieties from the millers of Sylhet Division.
However, the authority has extended 15 days for the procurement till September 15, official sources informe.
prepared by the Food Department on August 31, 11,279 tonnes of rice were collected against the target of 38,547 tonnes through the millers of 4 districts.
It is about to be failed due to short supply after repeated flash floods, lack of initiatives by the rice mill owners, absence of marketable surplus of rice or paddy etc. However, the target was also the ever highest for the division this year, official sources informed.
The food department has collected a total of 6,804.550 tonnes of boiled rice against the target of 18,953 tonnes while 13,036 tonnes of Atap rice were collected out of the targeted 19,954 tonnes.
The last year’s rice collection was 15,000 tonnes, the sources informed further.
Regional Controller of Food, Sylhet Division Md. Anisuzzaman told this correspondent, although the target couldn’t be achieved, we have procured the ever highest quantity of rice this year amid different problems. There are 43 husking mills for boiled rice in the four districts and 367 husking mills including nine automatic ones for Atap rice.
The official said further, although we are fully dependent on the private millers for rice procurement, most of the mills in the region are of old technology and the owners were not interested sted in modernising their units for reasons. This is why a good quantity of the paddy produced in the division is transported to other places, having modern husking mills, he added.
If they don’t come forward with modernising the units it would be hard to get rice from such millers in future too, the official added.
Of the total, 1489 tonnes of boiled rice and 3147 tonnes of Atap rice were collected in Sylhet district against a target of 3648 tonnes and 4830 tonnes respectively.
In Moulvibazar, 1874 tonnes of boiled and 1434 tonnes of Atap rice were procured against the target of 3680 and 1854 tonnes respectively.
In Habiganj district 2154.550 tonnes of boiled and 1466 tonnes of Atap rice were collected although the target was at 5216 and 2612 tonnes respectively while procurement in Sunamganj district stood 1287 and 6989.950 metric tonnes against the targeted 6409 and 10298 metric tonnes respectively.
