03-09-2021

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Export prospects of Rajshahi's products
to international markets bright
RAJSHAHI: Exporting
prospects of Rajshahi's
products to the international
markets is very bright as it is
famous for surplus
production of various goods
including jute, silk,
handicrafts and mango every
year, reports BSS.
Kazi Saidur Rahman,
assistant director of Export
Promotion Bureau (EPB),
said there are huge
potentialities of exporting
products to different global
markets from Rajshahi round
the year.
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"Rajshahi's jute, silk,
handicrafts and mango are
very familiar in world
markets. Among the nine
products that have so far been
registered as Geographical
Indications (GI) in
Bangladesh, four are from
Rajshahi," he said.
Rajshahi' silk in 2021 and
Chapainawabganj's
khirshapat mango, Rangpur's
Sataranji mat and Diranjpur's
Kataribhog rice in 2019 have
been brought under the GI
certification opening up an
enormous door in the field of
the region's export.
Export volume of
Rajshahi's products is
increasing particularly in the
countries belonging to the
South Asian Free Trade Area
(SAFTA).
Various products including
jute, handicrafts, garments,
handloom and light
engineering machineries
valued around 5.40 crore US
dollars were exported during
the last 2020-2021 fiscal year
despite the adverse impact of
the Covid-19 pandemic.
EPB official Rahman said
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the export earnings in the
previous 2019-2020 was
around 3.85 crore US dollars.
He, however, said EPB,
Rajshahi, constituted with the
16 districts in Rajshahi and
Rangpur divisions, has been
working for expanding the
export sector through
carrying out various
promotional works related to
providing need-based
suggestions and certified
facilitation to the new
entrepreneurs.
Professor Iliash Hossain of
the Department of Economics
in Rajshahi University said
the annual export earnings
could have been more if the
existing problems related to
communication,
transportation and capacity
to exist in the international
markets were solved.
Zila Parishad gets new multi-storey
building in Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI: The newly constructed multi-storied building of
Rajshahi Zila Parishad has been inaugurated formally
yesterday creating scopes of infusing dynamism into its
administrative and development activities, reports BSS.
The local government entity has constructed its own fourstorey
building at the traditional court premises in Rajshahi city
at a cost of around Taka 16 crore.
Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives
Minister Tajul Islam opened the building virtually as chief guest
saying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reactivated the zila
parishad and strengthened it for welfare of the nation.
He called for making the ancient institution more effective
and functional so the grassroots people can derive its total
benefits.
Senior Secretary to the ministry Helaluddin Ahmed
addressed the ceremony as the special guest virtually
mentioning that the role of zila parishad is imperative to
develop the country.
He opined that the institution must be effective and propeople
for the living and livelihood condition of the public in
general.Zila Parishad Chairman Muhammad Ali Sarker
welcomed the participants.
Advocacy meeting with GoB training Providing Agencies was held in Natore yesterday. Photo : Courtesy
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