Under a new TCB guideline, family card holders keep their monthly oil, sugar and lentils, while soap, salt, tea, flour and spices become optional products that anyone can buy.
Government-appointed fertiliser dealers will get a commission of Tk 3 a kg on all fertilisers, up from Tk 2, from next July, while the price farmers pay stays unchanged.
Bangladesh's public food grain stock has risen by 148,484 tonnes since the BNP government took office, reaching 23.59 lakh tonnes on 9 September.
The government has decided to import 110,000 tonnes of MOP, DAP and urea fertiliser from Belarus, Morocco and Saudi Arabia.
While farmers protest, loot depots and pay above the official price for fertiliser, the agriculture ministry insists supplies are ample through the coming Boro season.
The government has formed a four-member committee headed by the state minister for public administration to speed up recruitment to vacant sub-assistant agriculture officer posts.
The Ministry of Land has ordered the e-mutation system to record the actual class of land in the mutation khatian when an application is approved.
The government will import 40,000 tonnes of DAP and 30,000 tonnes of TSP fertiliser from Morocco at a cost of about Tk 688.7 crore.
The government will spend Tk 445.60 crore on 2 crore litres of refined palm olein and 10,000 tonnes of lentils for subsidised sale to one crore low-income families.
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has formed a 14-member advisory pool to help implement the programme to plant 25 crore trees in five years.
The Ministry of Agriculture has told fertiliser dealers not to delay lifting their allocations and warned of legal action against anyone trying to create a crisis.
The government has formed a three-member cabinet committee to advise and assist the Ministry of Agriculture on fertiliser lifting, distribution and the appointment of dealers.
Bangladesh has taken the drafting of a National Food Environment Strategy a step further at a WHO-organised national consultation that agreed its priorities and roadmap.
