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National Fruit Fair Opens as Adviser Urges Everyone to Eat Local Fruit
The three-day National Fruit Fair 2025 opened in Dhaka with 75 organisations taking part and a call from the agriculture adviser to eat local fruit.
The three-day National Fruit Fair 2025 opened in Dhaka with 75 organisations taking part and a call from the agriculture adviser to eat local fruit.
Home Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury says overall preparations, including security, for Eid-ul-Azha are good.
Vehicles carrying sacrificial animals must show their designated market, and anyone stopping them on the way will face action, the home adviser said.
Bangladesh's agriculture adviser told BIMSTEC ministers that joint work can secure food and nutrition, and offered to lead on a food reserve and research centre.
The home and agriculture adviser has called for the real extent of flood damage to farming to be assessed quickly, with support and rehabilitation for farmers.