The Prime Minister’s Office has formed a committee to identify the flaws in managing the 15 state-owned sugar mills. The mills owe the sugarcane farmers more than Tk 300 million, said Shahjahan Badsha, the general secretary of Bangladesh Sugar Mill Sugarcane Farmers Federation. It has 3,200 tonnes of sugar stocked in its warehouse now after producing 2,400 tonnes this year. Corruption and other sorts of irregularities have pushed the sugar industry to the brink, claimed Shahjahan, the leader of the sugarcane farmers. Representatives from the PMO, commerce ministry, industries ministry, agriculture ministry, and finance ministry sit on the inter-ministry committee, said SFIC boss Sanat Saha.

Source: bd News24 September 30, 2020 17:03 UTC