Paddy Price in Bangladesh
A kg of beef for a maund of paddy!
Lack of monitoring, awareness deprives Gazipur farmers of fair price
Govt to buy paddy at Tk 26, rice at Tk 36 per kg
The government will buy eight lakh metric tonnes of paddy at Tk 26 per kg in the current Boro season.
Govt Measures to Drive Paddy Prices Up: Nothing’s working
The government had announced a 20 percent incentive on rice export and a Tk 3,000 crore subsidy for farmers to buy agro tools. It had also doubled duties on rice import and nearly tripled its paddy procurement from farmers.
Farmers angry due to unfair price of paddy: Minister
Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque in parliament says that a huge resentment has been prevailing among the farmers due to deprivation of fair price of paddy at present.
Why govt should not be directed to purchase paddy, rice directly from farmers: HC
The High Court issues a rule asking the government to explain in four weeks why it should not be directed to purchase paddy and rice directly from the farmers in line with the Domestic Food Grain Procurement Policy 2017.
Farmers to get fair prices from next season
Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque yesterday said the government would make efforts to ensure paddy farmers get a fair price for their produce next season.
Government Procurement: Millers favoured over growers
The government has been making good progress in buying rice from millers but it is lagging far behind its target for buying paddy from farmers, who had protested recently for not getting decent price for their produce.
Price support still eludes rice farmers
Providing price support for farmers has always been a top policy goal of almost every government. In practice, however, successive governments procured very little paddy from growers in the last three decades.
Middlemen are the culprits
Middlemen control the rice market and they are the ones who are to blame for the fall in prices, noted economist and banker Khondkar Ibrahim Khaled said yesterday.
'Irresponsibility', lack of policy behind paddy price fall: Dr Kamal
Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain alleges that farmers are not getting the fair prices of paddy due to the lack of an agricultural policy and government's "irresponsibility".