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Rice growers annoyed at low worth urge govt

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12:00 AM, May 17, 2019 |
LAST MODIFIED: 02:16 AM, May 17, 2019
  

Paddy Field - File Photo

Frustrated by large losses, several farmers are hard-to-please that the govt procure paddy or rice directly from them instead of the rice mill homeowners.

“In this system, farmers don't have any selection however to sell their harvest to native rice mill homeowners. So, those middlemen become the beneficiaries and also the farmers become victims,” same Aziz Mulla, a farmer of Dhulauri village of Pabna’s Santhia upazila.

Meanwhile, Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque yesterday told reporters at his workplace, “Middlemen exist throughout the globe. World Health Organization are the middlemen? Wholesalers? Wholesalers are required. will farmers bring paddy to Karwan Bazar and sell?

“We are shopping for rice at Tk thirty six a kilo. however farmers don’t get the money. Political influence and prestigious folks interfere ….”

However, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder told reporters in Naogoan that there was no political influence in rice procurance.

To express their commonality, students in numerous districts have joined the annoyed farmers in complaintive the low costs of paddy.

Farmers are expression that their cost is beyond the value of rice and paddy.

“We had to pay Tk five hundred to Tk 550 to provide every weight unit of rice. however the value hovers between Tk four hundred or Tk 450,” same Ripon Islam, a farmer at Pakarmatha village in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila.

“We are acquisition large losses. we tend to are commerce paddy at low costs. however can the

farmers still cultivate paddy?” same Alawal Haque, a farmer in Dinajpur.

Zulfiquar Rahman, director (procurement) at the board General of Food, said 35,000 tonnes of rice had already been procured this season.

The government last month proclaimed it might purchase twelve.5 100000 tonnes of boro paddy this season to make sure honest costs for farmers.

Of the number, ten 100000 tonnes of parboiled rice and one.5 100000 tonnes of aromatic rice are purchased by the food department. it'll conjointly purchase one.5 100000 tonnes of paddy.

The department same it might pay Tk thirty six for a kilo of parboiled and Tk thirty five for aromatic rice.

The department same it might purchase paddy at Tk twenty six a kilo and also the procurance would continue till the top of August.

In Rangpur, Krishok Sangram Parishad yesterday unfold paddy on the road and shaped a personality's chain hard-to-please honest costs for his or her manufacture.

Farmers at the event proclaimed that they'd ne'er cultivate paddy once more.

Political activists conjointly incontestible on the streets.

In Rajshahi University, leaders and activists of People's Republic of Bangladesh Chhatra Federation yesterday shaped a personality's chain hard-to-please honest costs for paddy growers.

On Wednesday, over 100 students of the university incontestible.

In Dinajpur, the district’s Deputy Commissioner Mahmudul Alam inaugurated the govt paddy procurance programme yesterday.