Govt to buy 6 lakh tonnes of Aman paddy directly from farmers

Says agriculture minister
By Star Online Report
21 November 2019, 08:14 AM
UPDATED 21 November 2019, 15:42 PM
The government will buy six lakh metric tonnes of paddy directly from farmers this Aman season, Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzak says.

The government will buy six lakh metric tonnes of paddy directly from farmers this Aman season, Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzak said today.

The authorities are preparing a farmers' list up to the union level for a lottery so that no one gets deprived, the minister said at a programme in International Chamber of Commerce Bangladesh (ICCB) in Dhaka.

However, the rate of paddy purchase was not announced yet.