Agriculture Minister Dr Mohammad Abdur Razzaque said the government is giving special importance to manufacturing agricultural machinery in Bangladesh. "Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory Limited (BMTF) could step in to produce farm machinery. Besides, the BMTF could work in modifying imported farm machinery to make those more suitable...
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This year's tea production target is 7,59,40,000 kgThe last 5 months of this year have produced 1,28,46,000 kg of teaThe first 5 months of last year, production was 1,62,81,000 kgLast season (Apr 2019 - Mar 2020) 90.44 million kg of tea was sold at 45 auctions in...
মৌলভীবাজারের উৎপাদিত চা দিয়েই দেশের সিংহভাগ চায়ের চাহিদা মেটে। করোনা পরিস্থিতিতে দেশের অনেক শিল্প হুমকীর মুখে পড়লেও বন্ধ হয়নি চাশিল্প। শ্রমিকদের স্বাস্থ্যবিধি মেনে চলার পরামর্শ দেয়ার পাশাপাশি বাগান কর্তৃপক্ষ বাড়তি সতর্কতামূলক ব্যবস্থা নিয়েছেন। ফলে এই শিল্প ব্যাপক ক্ষতির মুখ থেকে রক্ষা পেয়েছে। এছাড়া চা শিল্পের সঙ্গে যুক্ত...
Farmers, low-income group people and small-time traders are yet to get loans from the Tk 3,000 crore stimulus package that the central bank launched in April keeping to a government move to help marginal people affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. The loans from the package are supposed...
Bangladesh's rice imports fell to a nearly 40-year low in the fiscal year 2019-20 thanks to farmers' endeavour to increase the yields of the main crop and allow the nation to be self-sufficient in the cereal production. Total import was 4,180 tonnes in the last fiscal year,...
The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Bangladesh has decided to provide financial assistance for 1,000 marginal farmers in Sirajganj during the Covid-19 pandemic. They disclosed the matter in a virtual programme titled "AmCham Support for the Farmers during Covid-19 Pandemic" on Sunday morning. Agriculture Minister Muhammad...
Misuse of tax benefits given to fish and poultry sectors has continued unabated due to lack of proper mechanism of the National Board of Revenue to crosscheck the income shown by the taxpayers from the sectors. Tax officials said that they used to express their inability to...
Farm loan disbursement by the country’s banks dropped by 60 per cent or Tk 2,442.99 crore in April-May this year compared with the amount disbursed in the same period of last year due mainly to the coronavirus outbreak-induced disruptions. Due to the plunge in the disbursement, the...
The government has launched an online agricultural market portal, hortexbazarbd.com, to boost trade of farm products during coronavirus pandemic, said officials.
Agriculture minister Dr Mohammad Abdur Razzaque inaugurated the portal during a virtual meeting on development and evaluation of the ministry's projects and programmes...
Krishibid Feed, a sister concern of Krishibid Group, has deisgns to go public to raise Tk 30 crore to expand its business to meet the growing demand for feeds in the livestock sector. The poultry, fish and cattle feed producer has already applied to the stock market...