General Manager of Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) Muhammad Awal Khan Wednesday urged the bankers for disbursements of adequate agri-loans at farmers’ doorsteps for enhancing agri-production. The farmers could ensure sustainable developments in the country through ensuring its food security by increasing production if they were provided with necessary facilities including agri-loans in an easier way, he said.
He put special emphasis on disbursing agri-loans at two percent interest rate among the farmers for enhancing productions of pulses, spices and oilseeds to make the country self-reliant on these essentials without imports.
He was addressing an ‘Open Agri-loan Disbursement Ceremony’ arranged by Gujipara Branch of RAKUB at Bhendabari under Pirganj upazila as the chief guest with its Zonal Manager Rafikul Alam Chowdhury in the chair.
RAKUB officials AN Das, Abdul Wajed Mandal, farmers Nurul Haque, Nazrul Islam, Bhendabari union chairman Khalilur Rahman, local elite Dildar Hossain, Manjur Hossain, Abdul Baten, Gopal Chandra, Awami League leaders Wajed Ali and Kainat Selim, addressed.
Later, the chief guest distributed agri-loans among  the farmers from different areas of the union in the open loan  disbursement ceremony.

News: The Independent/ Bangladesh/ 25-feb-2011