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To the Editor...
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Loan to dairy farms
Sir. A report published In the press says that the honourable Finance Minister has directed the commercial banks to grant loans to entrepreneurs interested In setting up dairy farms in the country. He also assured that Government would subsidise setting up of dairy farms. This is no doubt a heartening news because Government has to spend Tk four hundred crore In foreign exchange every year In importing milk. But It Is felt that loans should be granted cautiously, so that the prospective dairy farms can find markets within easy reach. From this angle a large number of dairy farms should be set up in and around Dhaka and Chittagong cities and other big towns where there are ready markets for diary products as baby food and casein sweet meats.
In far flung rural areas, purchasing power of people in general is very low and hence it will be difficult to sell a big quantity of milk by the milk producers. Careful selection of entrepreneurs Is also Important to prevent misuse and misappropriation of loans which happens quite often tn our country. These and other relevant factors should be kept In view while sanctioning loans to prospective dairy farms.
Saleh Ahmed Chowdhury Dhaka Cantonment
No one-taka coin
Sir, We do not still have a one Taka coin. Perhaps the paper currency is water, rain and cyclone-proof, and lasts longer, and costs cheaper in the long run (repeated withdrawal of overused notes and regular reprinting)!
We can apply for another world record!
Coinless citizen
Dhaka
Toxic fertilizer
Sir, The item '1113 tonnes of toxic fertilizer distributed' by S Y Bakht In your 23rd Sept Issue continues in the fine tradition of Investigative Journalism one associates with The Dally Star
The subject of the report and the subsequent happenings reek of conspiracy, callousness and cover-up that are now all too pervasive tn Bangladeshi officialdom. As Mr Bakht has observed the Agriculture Ministry Is silent probably at the behest of the powerful beneficiaries of this transaction.
The questions are simple: 1. Inspfte of being Inspected how did the contamination escape detection prior to shipment? 2. Why were BARI officials so eager to certify poison fit for human consumption? 3. Why did BADC distribute the fertilizer despite of warnings from the EPA?
The nation demands an answer. Will The Dally Star and Mr S Y Bakht continue the good work and expose the Institutions and persons responsible for this crime against humanity so that exemplary punishment can be handed out.
Mustafa Kamal Motyheel C/A. Dhaka
War a determinism ?
Sir, War has always been terrible. It causes immeasurable and Irredressable losses to the people. Perhaps none In the world would refer war as a means to achieve some thing. But, sadly enough, people get Involved in war. kill fellowbe-Ings. destroy properties and above all bring holocaust of disaster to the mankind.
There has been a school of international relations concerned with peace-research. A voluminous body of literature has been written by the scholars subjecting the ways to being peace Internationally. But all those still could not constitute a viable theory to Interpret the hostile relations of nations causing war. It Is said that since International relations as a subject falls under social science discipline, whose variables are unmanageable, ft has become rather difficult to theorize. And thus the Ideas constitute a paradox.
In such a paradoxical situation, would peace remain elusive? Perhaps, the answer lies In the Justness of the would order. In the Just existing order, wars will occur, people will die .
The paradox should better be referred to determinism. We do not still have enough institutions to combat the vices Individually, regionally, nationally and internationally.
The perpetrators of crime amounting to wars enjoy the chance to evade the pangs.
However, with the development of civilization, institutions would develop to contain this possibility of evasion. But, should wars and other devastating phenomena destabilizing world peace and security be allowed to continue till a complex network of Institutions is developed?
Md Abdur Rouf
Sergeant Zahurul Haque Hall, DU
Deforestation
Sir, Forest resources of Bangladesh are very scanty compared to our need. Hence all out efforts should be made not only to protect and preserve the existing forests but also for expansion of the forest area. While there is a dearth of publicity and propaganda In this regard, in practice large scale cutting of trees in government forests, specially in Chittagong area, is defeating the objective.
Even an autocrat like Er-shad banned cutting trees from the government forests of Chittagong. But after fall of Er-shad the timber merchants somehow managed to cancel that order and as a result the main forest areas of Chittagong are fast losing trees with all its dangerous consequences. While the policy-makers and bureaucrats of Forest Ministry and Forest Department and the timber merchants are perhaps having a nice time, the country will surely be facing a bad time unless the policy is reversed In time.
Will the higher ups in the government took Into It?
Zaidi Ahmed Ja/rt Fullbari, Sylhet