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Joining a webinar organized by the Agricultural Reporters Forum-ARF on Wednesday afternoon, he said: “Potatoes cost 35 rupees… it’s a lot of price. Taking reality into account, we increased it by another five rupees to 35 rupees. But the price of potatoes is 50 to 55 rupees … not acceptable at all. “
Addressing traders and stockists, he said: “You are making a profit, you are doing business for a profit. But don’t worry about getting rich overnight this time. It is my humble request that out of a sense of duty to people , sell potatoes at the price set by the government ”.
To keep the market stable, the government set the price of a kg of potatoes at Tk 30 in the retail market and then set it at Tk 35.
Furthermore, the Agricultural Marketing Department set the price of potatoes again on Tuesday at 28 Tk per kg in cold rooms and 30 Tk per kg in wholesale.
After the abnormal increase in the market price of potatoes, on October 6, the Agricultural Marketing Department had set the price of potatoes at 23 rupees per kg in cold stores, 25 rupees wholesale and 30 rupees at retail . But no one sold potatoes at that price. It costs 50 rupees to buy a kilo of potatoes.
The Department of Agricultural Marketing has asked the Deputy Commissioners (DC) to take the necessary steps to ensure that potatoes are sold at all levels at that price by setting new prices.
Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzak said at the webinar that potato production had been disrupted this year due to the distribution of large quantities of potatoes in relief allocated to the extremely poor and Rohingya in the coronavirus epidemic and the loss of seedlings due to flooding.
Early last year, Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzak said the government would soon launch a new variety of rice, golden rice, to address the common man’s vitamin A deficiency.
Although more than a year and a half has passed, the paddy field has not yet received authorization from the Department of the Environment, the agriculture minister said.
Abdur Razzak said: “There is a lot of controversy and criticism about this genetically modified rice. The Department of the Environment has not yet given us authorization as to whether this paddy field is harmful to the human body or whether there will be any harm to the environment as a result of growing the rice. We are trying. ”
The Ministry of Agriculture is pending to increase the production of eggs, milk, fish and meat to guarantee food security and nutritious food in the event of a coronavirus epidemic.
The minister said: “We have a pretty good rice production here. We ate more rice, the protein came from the rice. Rice is our main food. Before we used to eat 425-430 grams of rice. It has decreased and we now eat 360-360 grams of food.
“That means we can reduce the amount of rice and increase the production of nutritious food like eggs, milk, fish, meat; if we can afford it, we will definitely achieve the nutritional goal.”
Journalists asked Abdur Razzak, chairman of the public procurement committee, if the coronavirus would hamper the SDG targets this time around.
In response, he cited various statistics, saying: “After a survey of six countries in the world, The Economist intelligence says that Bangladesh is one of the nine countries in the world that now has good economies.”
“Another report says that the Bangladeshi economy has positive growth, where the Indian economy has fallen more than 24 percent. We are ranked 64th on the Hunger Index. Pakistan, 6 years old, India ranks 94th. So now is not the time to talk about whether Kovid will alter the SDGs. “
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