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Cabinet meeting held at the secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair on December 21,2020. Picture: Collected[/caption]
On Monday (December 21, 2020), the Cabinet approved the draft of "Bangladesh Agricultural Good Practice Policy, 2020" to ensure safe and quality agricultural products by implementing good practices in the entire production-cost-effective chain.
The approval came from the cabinet meeting held at the secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. She joined the meeting virtually from Ganobhaban.
“The policy has been introduced to exercise good practices in all stages including breeding, collection, preservation, marketing and consumption,” Cabinet Secretary Khandker Anwarul Islam told reporters after the meeting.
He said the main objectives of the policy include ensuring sustainable production of safe and nutritious crops, production of environment-friendly crops and protection and welfare of agricultural workers.
The Cabinet has approved in principle the draft of "Kurigram Agricultural University Bill, 2020" for the development of agriculture in the northern districts through research.
“It’ll be a prototype of the existing agricultural universities,” the cabinet secretary said, adding that now there are 153 universities – 46 public and 107 private —in the country.
Besides, the cabinet okayed the draft speech of President Abdul Hamid to be delivered in the first session of parliament in 2021.
Source: Online/SZK
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