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BADC-ACT
BADC Act, 2018 Bill places in JS to ensure food security
SANGSAD BHABAN, June 19, 2018 (BSS) – Bangladesh Agricultural Development
Corporation Act, 2018
Bill was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad through repealing the Bangladesh Agricultural
Development
Corporation Ordinance, 1961with a view to ensure the supply of the all necessary
inputs and equipments
including fertilizer, irrigation, seed and ingredients and machineries for
horticulture development at the
farmers level.
Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury placed the bill at the house with Speaker
Dr Shirin Sharmin
Chowdhury in the chair.
The enactment of the law will help to continuous supply of all the necessary
agricultural ingridients and
inputs for the farmers to ensure food security for the increasing population.
The act will help to take necessary steps by producing certified and quality seed of
jute, pulse, cereal food
crops, potato, oilseed, vegetable and other crops through the contact growers,
according to the draft act.
Even the new act will also help the judicial use of the water resources by using and
conservation of surface
and rain water, it said, adding that innovation of new crop variety and release it
with the name of the
corporation.
The agriculture minister urged the house to send the draft bill to the parliamentary
standing committee for
further scrutiny within 10 days.
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