Fisheries and Livestock Adviser Farida Akhter today spoke at Haripur Government Primary School ground Shailkupa Upazila, Jhenaidah. Photo : PID Photo : PID

DHAKA, Feb 5, 2025 (BSS) - Fisheries and Livestock Adviser Farida Akhter today asked the deputy commissioners (DCs) and UNOs to lease out the beels and baors (wetlands) to the real fishermen.

“The baors can’t be leased out to the non-fishing people,” she said while addressing a rally of the marginal farmers' as chief guest, organized by the Sammilito Khamari Parishad at the Haripur Government Primary School ground in Shailkupa Upazila, said a ministry release.
   
Mentioning that three ministries are working on the lease management, the adviser said that they are expecting this issue will be resolved soon.

She discouraged farmers to cultivate tobacco, saying other crops including rice should be cultivated on these lands.

Farida Akhter said that the country has milk but no storage, and that is why milk storage would be constructed by building a cattle hub.

“Arrangements will be made so that people can buy fresh milk directly from the farmers,” she added.

Assuring the farmers to solve their problems, the adviser said the current government is trying to create a healthy and humane environment. “Plans are being taken so that there will be no discrimination in the society.”

Attorney General Md. Asaduzzaman, Pakistan High Commissioner to Bangladesh Syed Ahmed Maruf, Jhenaidah Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Abdul Awal, representative of US President Donald Trump's business organization Gabriel Pinedas, former Dean of Rajshahi University Dr. Aminul Haque, LDDP Project Director Dr. Md. Jasim Uddin, Shailkupa UNO Snigdha Das, Teesta River Protection Committee President Faridul Islam, spoke on behalf of the farmers, Tarek Reza, Central Coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, among others, also spoke with Tariqul Islam Turki in the chair.