State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Jahangir Kabir Nanak yesterday said the government has a plan to set up chain cooperative markets across the country to check price hike of essentials and ensure fair price of agri-inputs.
He was inaugurating five cooperative markets in different areas in the city.
Of the five markets, Department of Cooperatives will run four markets while the rest one by Rural Development, Bogra Unit.
The state minister said the government will open this kind of cooperative markets in every ward of the capital in the first phase as part of its programmes to reform the market system for ensuring fair prices to farmers, reducing influence of middle men and protecting consumer rights.
Later, the cooperatives market will be opened in district, upazila and village levels, he said.
The farmers are being deprived of getting fair price in one hand and the consumers are falling prey to price hike on the other hand, he said.
Source : The Daily Star
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