Govt urged to form price commission for agro products
UNB
Speakers at a seminarin the city yesterday urged the government to form a price commission for agro products and pass an act on food and nutrition right to ensure food security in Bangladesh and make the agriculture sector profitable, reports UNB.
They gave the observation that agriculture is the mainstay of Bangladeshs economy and yet farmers do not get proper prices for their produces.
They claimed that budgetary subsidy outlay stipulated for farm sector is not adequate and a huge volume of farm products get wasted in absence of proper marketing value chain and transportation facilities.
If a price commission can be formed, the farmers will get proper price of their production. On the other hand, the proposed Right to Food Act will ensure publics right to get balanced food for everyone in the country, they said.
Right to Food Bangladesh, an NGO, arranged the seminar today at CIRDAP Auditorium on Agriculture and Right to Food with the support of Christian Aid.
