A report of the parliamentary standing committee's first meeting records members saying weak distribution, black marketing and smuggling are hurting farmers despite stocks, and recommending tighter monitoring.
LivestockThe fisheries and livestock ministry told a parliamentary committee that a kilo of beef costs Tk 587.50 to produce and an egg Tk 10.81, and the committee asked for checks on how far market prices exceed those costs.
At the first meeting of the 13th parliament's standing committee on agriculture, the minister set out plans to cut import dependence and export farm produce, protect soil health, implement the 2026 fertiliser-dealer policy, open flower and soil research centres at Gadkhali, expand cotton, maize, swe
