Food Minister Quamrul Islam has said that the country has more than 1 crore 6 lakh metric tonnes of rice.
On Thursday, he told the information in favor of the Food Ministry favoring allocation of the sector. He proposed to allocate 14 thousand 4/9 million 9 lakh 81 thousand taka for the development and non-development expenditure of the president in his ministry in favor of the President.The Food Minister said, there is no shortage of rice in the true sense. However, due to the natural disasters of the river, the distribution of rice in various social programs of the government at different times was not possible. The government is importing any future disaster. Already 2.55 million metric tons of rice has been imported from Vietnam. There are 4 million metric tons of rice pipelines from Vietnam and India.He said rice market unrest was created due to the variation in government prices and market prices. I have already been demanding reduction of import duty to NBR. Finally, the government reduced the import duty. Now hope the price of rice will come under control.




