Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder on Sunday said the government has taken up a plan to build a silo with a capacity of 35 lakh tonnes in the coming days.
This silo will increase the current storage capacity of 21,80,000 tonnes of food grains in the country, he said.
The minister made the remarks while addressing the inauguration ceremony of a newly constructed silo with a capacity of 1,000 tonnes at Saraswatipur in Naogaon’s Mahadevpur upazila.
If this plan is implemented, the government will be able to ensure fair price for the farmers and purchase their additional crops, he added.
Describing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina-led government as a pro-farmer one, Sadhan said a plan to construct 200 more paddy silos across the country at a cost of Tk 1,500 crore is also being implemented.
Of these, the construction process of 30 silos has already started. These silos are being built in a fully digitalised process, he said.
The food minister also said that the construction of a buffer silo in Naogaon will start soon.
With Rajshahi Division Regional Food Controller Zahirul Islam Khan in the chair, the ceremony was attended, among others, by local lawmaker Salim Uddin Tarafder, Deputy Commissioner Khalid Mehdi Hasan and Superintendent of Police Muhammad Rashidul Haque.
In view of the long-standing demands of rice mill owners of Mahadevpur upazila, the Directorate General of Food constructed the Saraswatipur LSD silo on an acre of land at a cost of more than Tk 2.92 crore, read a press release.
