<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Food Minister Sadhan Chandar Majumder on Thursday the government is planning to provide over one crore families with 10 kg rice under Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme in the upcoming Ramadan.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said this while responding to a question from journalists at the secretariat.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The country has achieved bumper Aman yield and the country won’t need to import rice once good yield of Boro paddy is achieved, said the minister.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said the government usually distributes rice to people during the Ramadan under rationing, Kabikha, TR and OMS programmes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">" Rice and flour are distributed through 2500 dealers across the country on a regular basis,” he said, adding that the lower-income people can buy 5 kg rice at Tk 30 per kg and 3 kg flour at Tk 24 under OMS programme.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said over one crore families of the country get 5 kg rice and 3 kg flour each round the year and no one will fall in crisis for rice&nbsp; in the Ramadan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">50 lakh families will be provided with 30 kg rice at Tk 15 per kg&nbsp; from March 1 and people usually get&nbsp; rice under the progamme five months—March, April, May, September and October a year. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>