Business Desk :
Tobacco growers on Saturday demanded to withdraw all taxes imposed on Bidi industry for saving tobacco cultivators. Their platform Bangladesh Tobacco Farmers and Businessmen Samiti’s district chapter held a Press Conference at Nilfamari Press Club, says a press release.
Speakers at the conference laid stress on imposing extra tax on multinational cigarette companies operating business in Bangladesh. They also urged the government to craft policies to save country’s tobacco cultivators.
They voiced their seven-point demands that includes (1) withdrawing all taxes imposed on Bidi industry, (2) like Bidi industry in India, the Bidi industry of Bangladesh should be declared as ‘cottage industry’, (3) foreign cigarettes must be banned from the country, (4) conspiracies to terminate Bidi industry must be stopped, (5) Steps to keep lower Bidi price should be taken, (6) as long as there are cigarettes in the country, the bidi industry will remain and (7) addressing discriminations between cigarette and Bidi industry.
Samiti’s president HamidulHaqueChaiman said,’tobacco is one of the key crops in North Bengal. Most farmers live on it by selling their yield to Bidi factories. But excessive taxes that have forced owners to shut down their factories also hurt the farmers intensely.
Tobacco growers on Saturday demanded to withdraw all taxes imposed on Bidi industry for saving tobacco cultivators. Their platform Bangladesh Tobacco Farmers and Businessmen Samiti’s district chapter held a Press Conference at Nilfamari Press Club, says a press release.
Speakers at the conference laid stress on imposing extra tax on multinational cigarette companies operating business in Bangladesh. They also urged the government to craft policies to save country’s tobacco cultivators.
They voiced their seven-point demands that includes (1) withdrawing all taxes imposed on Bidi industry, (2) like Bidi industry in India, the Bidi industry of Bangladesh should be declared as ‘cottage industry’, (3) foreign cigarettes must be banned from the country, (4) conspiracies to terminate Bidi industry must be stopped, (5) Steps to keep lower Bidi price should be taken, (6) as long as there are cigarettes in the country, the bidi industry will remain and (7) addressing discriminations between cigarette and Bidi industry.
Samiti’s president HamidulHaqueChaiman said,’tobacco is one of the key crops in North Bengal. Most farmers live on it by selling their yield to Bidi factories. But excessive taxes that have forced owners to shut down their factories also hurt the farmers intensely.
