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Rice market to become normal in a month: Tipu
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RANGPUR, Feb 21, 2021 (BSS) – Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi today said rice market would become normal within a month.
“The present problem of rice would not exist long . Boro rice will appear in early April. We have taken initiative to import one million tons of food. About three and a half lakh tones of food have already arrived in the country,” he said.
The minister said this while talking to reporters after inaugurating a mural of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Rangpur Zilla Parishad premises this afternoon.
Regarding the increase in oil prices, the minister said, “If the price of oil does not come down in the international market, its price in Bangladesh will not come down.”
Commodity import for Ramadan to be double this year: Tipu Munshi
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi. File photo. Staff Correspondent, Ctg Staff Correspondent, Ctg
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi yesterday said the government was trying to import essential commodities like edible oil, chick peas, date and onion through the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh in large quantities ahead of the holy month of Ramadan aiming at keeping prices stable.
The imports will be double in quantity compared to that of previous years, he informed. We have also talked with the business people who assured that the prices would be kept at a reasonable level in Ramadan, he said.
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The government today set the prices of edible oil in the local markets to tame the skyrocketing price in the domestic markets, and to curb price manipulation by a section of unscrupulous traders. The new prices will come into effect immediately, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi said when he was briefing journalists after a meeting with major importers, traders, wholesalers and