Saarc Food Bank meet begins Oct 27
Saarc Food Bank's fourth meeting will be held on October 27-28 in Dhaka, which is likely to clear the way for making the bank operational to address any food crisis in South Asia.
The Ministry of Food and Disaster Management at a meeting on Tuesday fixed the date for the meet to be attended by the high officials of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) countries, says a press release.
Saarc Food Bank was established in 2007 to meet emergency food crisis due to destruction of crops by natural calamites or any other reasons.
Any of the Saarc countries suffering food crisis can demand food from other countries that earmark food for the cause.
However, it could not be made effective because certain issues like uniform standard of the food grain, mode of transport and price were not settled.
"These issues and others if any will be settled in the October meeting of the Saarc Food Bank," said Food Minister Abdur Razzaque who chaired the meeting at the food ministry.
Disaster Management Secretary Mokhlesur Rahman, Food Division Acting Secretary Barun Dev Mitra, Department of Food Director General Ahmad Hossain Khan, Food Division Joint Secretary Khandaker Atiar Rahman, Director General of Saarc at the Foreign Ministry Shafiur Rahman and other food ministry officials were present at the meeting.
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