Netrakona Correspondent

Proper handling of rice supplied at wholesale and retail level from automatic and husking rice mills at Netrakona and printing of "Production and Supply" price on all types of sacks or packets has been inaugurated. On Friday morning.

Netrakona Food Department organized auspicious opening ceremony at Ramkrishnapur M/s Majumdar Auto Rice of Amtala Union of Netrakona Sadar Upazila.

Deputy Commissioner Shahed Parvez inaugurated the program as the chief guest under the chairmanship of Netrakona Food Department District Food Controller Moetachemur Rahman. Additional Deputy Commissioner (General) Mohammad Rafikuzzaman spoke as a special guest.

Haji HR Khan Pathan Sakhi, General Secretary of the Central Committee of Automatic and Husking Rice Mill Association, Mr. Sujit Majumdar, owner of M/s Majumdar Auto Rice Mill and others. As the chief guest, Deputy Commissioner Shahed Parvez said that recently due to the abnormal increase in the price of rice, rice producing mills were visited in different districts of the country. It has been confirmed that a class of unscrupulous traders are producing rice from the same variety of rice under different names and selling it at different prices.

When the price of rice goes to unreasonable levels, mill owners, wholesalers and retailers blame each other. Consumers are facing difficulty in buying rice of their choice at a fair price, are being cheated and suffer financially.

In order to get rid of this situation, to keep the price of rice at a reasonable level, to ensure that it is marketed in the name of rice, it has been made mandatory to mention the name of the variety of rice, the address of the manufacturer, the net weight, the date of production and the mill gate price to facilitate the monitoring of the related activities. . This will protect the general public from fraud and price gouging.