Agriculture Minister and Awami League Presidium Member Dr Abdur Razzaque has said that there is no food crisis in the country and not a single person has remained unfed.
He made the remarks while inspecting the seed production in Manikganj, Singair and Ghior upazilas on Thursday morning.
The minister said the BNP leaders are spreading falsehood against the incumbent government regarding food shortage. Some intellectuals and civil society members are talking the same.
Dr Razzaque also said that the people had starved every day during the BNP regime, people had died every year due to Monga. But in the last 13 years, not a single person died of food crisis in the country, he added.
The government is giving seeds to the farmers for free. If necessary it will be increased across the country, he added.
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Monga, also known as “Mora Kartik”, is a famine-like situation caused due to droughts and loss of crops in the northern districts of Bangladesh. Monga ultimately leads to hunger due to lack of work and income opportunity of the agricultural workers.