GAIBANDHA, JUNE 30, 2018 (BSS) – Boro rice procurement drive of Food
Department has been continuing in the district since May amid much enthusiasm
to the millers and the officials.
Office sources said the government has fixed a target to procure a total
of 21,616 tonnes of boiled rice and 3,200 tonnes of Atap rice from the
millers through 11 purchasing centers of all the seven upazilas in the
district during the current Boro season.
Price of per kg of boiled rice and Atap rice has also been fixed at Taka
38 and Taka 37 respectively, the sources said.
To make the Boro rice procurement drive a grand success, the department of
food has also performed their agreement with 487 millers of the district.
Of the total, 14,088 tonnes of boiled rice and 1,900 tonnes of Atap rice
had already been purchased from the millers, said an official of the Food
Department.
M Amzad Hossain, district controller of food, said the rice procurement
target must be achieved easily as it would continue in the district till
August, 2018.