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Want of seeds, fund hampers cotton cultivation
RANGAMATI, Dec 14 I Cotton, cultivation in Chittagong Hill districts has been severely hindered due to lack of planning, high yielding seeds and bank loan, reports UNB.
At least 18,770 acres of land in Rangamati, Khagrachhari and Bandarban districts had been brought under cotton cultivation and the production was 18,77,000 kilograms in the year 1991-92.
The target for cotton cultivation for the current fiscal year has been set at 24,621 acres.
Cotton growers complained that they took loan at a very high interest rate from local mahajans1 (money landers) to replenish capital and high breed cotton seeds.
But they had to sell their production to the middlemen at low prices and had been left with no fund for the next sea-
The government could earn
crores of taka every year as revenue from the hill districts if the growers were provided bank loans, sources said.
Rangamati and Bandarban Cotton Board officials told UNB that the ginning complexes set up for quality seed production could not be made fully operational due to delay in receiving fund allocation from the higher authorities.
At present, growers produce cotton worth about Taka one crore every year purely on private initiative.
More than 100 officers and staff arc going to lose their jobs on completion of eleven multi-purpose projects in .the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
A total of 178 people are employed in the income-generation projects of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board, financed jointly by the Asian Development Bank and the Bangladesh Government.
These projects would be completed by June next year
and the services of over a hundred employees would have to be dispensed with after 10 to 12 years of purely temporary work. A few personnel would be required for operation and maintenance but they would be recruited according to the
Informed sources said newly started rubber processing plants would require 70 to 75 officers and staff who may be taken from the surplus project employees in June.
The new projects are a rubber project on an area of 8,000 acres and a horticulture plantation on 4,000 acres in the northern valley of the' Hill Tracts.
A Development Board source suggested that the surplus employees might also be reemploycd in the second phase of the development project which was under consideration of the government and the ADB.