Fixing amount of fitra

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It is customary to fix fitra in terms of staple food of one country. Bangladesh has been created on the basis of our own culture. Our staple food is rice. Every year we see a committee, set for this purpose, fix the rate of fitra in terms of wheat, kismis, khurma, etc., which is not our staple food. And the people whom we usually give fitra are the poorest people of our country. So, I request the people of Bangladesh to give fitra in terms of the price of rice, not in terms of atta or kismis or khurma.