Set up new rice research centre to break private sector monopoly
Published on: September 25, 2022.
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The government should set up a hybrid paddy research facility alongside the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) to break the private sector’s monopoly on the seed market and increase rice production, according to Mohammad Masum, chairman of the Supreme Seed Company.
“Some 90 per cent of the hybrid paddy seed market in Bangladesh is controlled by the private sector as the BRRI is unable to release any competitive variety of the crop,” he said in an interview with The Daily Star.
