Bangladesh Auto Major and Husking Mill Owners' Association General Secretary Layek Ali told the meeting that neither rice price nor paddy price had increased. Nidhar Chandra Saha, president of Naogaon Paddy-Rice Warehouse Owners’ Association, also said no situation that could cause rice price hike had developed. “There were some disruptions in some areas due to the elections,” he said and added these might have led to price hike in some areas. There was no price hike in key rice-producing areas such as Dinajpur, Naogaon, Bogura, Sherpur, Ashuganj and Kushtia, Layek Ali claimed. Layek, owner of Madina Rice Mills and also president of Joypurhat Rice Mill Owners’ Association, alleged the rice price hike report was part of a ‘misleading propaganda’.

Source: bd News24 January 10, 2019 20:37 UTC