'Form farmers' cooperatives'
State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Jahangir Kabir Nanok yesterday directed the cooperatives department to form farmers' cooperatives society at grassroots level to ensure fair prices of agriculture goods, breaking the syndicate of middlemen.
He also sought cooperation of successful cooperative societies to rejuvenate the sick cooperatives.
The state minister was addressing as the chief guest a discussion organised by the Cooperatives Department at its conference room in the city.
The meeting discussed how to rejuvenate the sick cooperatives in light of the experiences of the successful cooperative societies, said an official release.
Nanok urged the successful cooperative societies to take special programmes to make the country's youth efficient and active.
He said the leaders and activists of Jubo League would be given special training at Bangladesh Rural Development Academy (BARD) in the first phase to make the disheartened and unemployed youth solvent and self-reliant.
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