GOVERNMENT WILL PROVIDE FIRMING LOAN TRHOUGH MICROCREDIT PROCESS.

Small-Scale Livestock Farming: A Grass-Based Approach for Health, Sustainability, and Profit

 

A planning is under process to disburse small loans to small entrepreneurs in the fisheries and livestock sector by the government. "The ministry is preparing a proposal in this regard," fisheries and livestock minister Abdul Latif Biswas told on Thursday. Loans ranging from Tk 10,000 to 30,000 would be given to unemployed but trained youths and farm entrepreneurs, he said.

"If the entrepreneurs want to raise livestock, poultry or farm fish, half of their loans will be provided in cash, while the livestock with the rest," Biswas said. The fund will, however, be a revolving one. It will begin work by coordinating all the running microcredit programmes under the ministry.

"The programme, if approved, could start operating in as early as July," Biswas said. The programme will emphasise raising goats and sheep, as entrepreneurs are seen to show more interest in such livestock. Officials said the ministry had been disbursing financial aid and loans to the sector, but there was no coordination. The target of this microcredit project was to create employments for youths not involved in farming.

Bangladesh going to expand the Agricultural Farming Industry in Tanzania.

Local private sector company, Bhatibangla Agrotech, is going to sign a land-lease deal with Tanzania next week to produce crops in the East African country. "We're going to submit our proposal and working plan to Tanzania Agriculture Partnership Department on Friday and it's expected that the process will be completed within a week," Mizanur Rahman Azad, chief executive officer of Bhatibangla Agrotech, from Tanzania on Thursday.

"Initially, we would like to take on lease 30,000 hectares of land for 99 years with per annum cost of Tk 135 per hectare. We want to start the cultivation on June 10." Mizan said they had a plan to have 2.0 to 2.5 million hectares of land in Tanzania for cultivation.

"I discussed other major issues, including permission to grow any crop, procurement of farmers and seed from any country, repatriation of profit, and provision of loans," the Bhatibangla official said. Mizan said there were scopes to take on lease lands in South Sudan, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda and Mozambique. "If land can be taken on lease in those countries, Bangladesh will need not to worry about food security for many years," he said.

A foreign ministry official said a business delegation last month visited Uganda and completed primary negotiations to take on lease 10,000 hectres of land. "Agriculture ministry is going to prepare a guideline for taking land on lease for farming in foreign countries," he said.

  

Nokia X2-01 QWERTY - A review from Bangladesh.

The Nokia X2-01 has the right ingredients to serve and entertain. And if you’re looking to buy cheap, it’s an offer that’s hard to beat. With its combination of features and form factor versus price, the Nokia X2-01 has a market segment of its own. It’s another foot soldier in Nokia’s offensive in becoming the world’s number one QWERTY phone manufacturer.

Key features

•     Entry level QWERTY messenger bar
•     Quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity
•     2.4" 256K-color QVGA TFT display with great sunlight legibility
•     VGA camera with QVGA video recording at 24fps
•     Series 40 UI, 6th edition
•     Stereo FM radio with RDS
•     Bluetooth 2.1 (with EDR)
•     Standard micro USB port
•     Micro SD card slot (8GB supported)
•     3.5mm audio jack
•     Good audio quality
•     Reasonable price: BDT 7400

This color is available in Bangladesh

Main disadvantages

•     No 3G
•     Piss poor camera
•     No smart dialing
•     No USB charging
•     No Data cable
•     No Micro SD card included

Some document viewer capabilities or basic multitasking should be included in the phone feature. This phone sometime turn-off without any notice if anyone try to do some multitasking activities, this is the major problem to handle this phone in rough time.

RAMNA BATAMUL TRIAL - Still need long way to establish Justice.

Spot-death on the incident of Ramna Batamul, 2001

The nation will commemorate the 10 anniversary of the well-planned deadly explosions at Ramna Batamul. In a well-planned attack on April 14, 2001, militants threw grenades into the crowd, killing at least 10 people and wounding 50 others, blowing limbs off spectators as thousands gathered at Ramna Batamul in the capital to celebrate Pahela Baishakh, the Bengali New Year's Day.

On the day of the incident, Nilkhet Police Camp sergeant Amal Chandra Chanda filed the two cases under killing and explosives acts with Ramna Police Station.

After the case had changed hands of six investigation officers, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) inspector Abu Hena Mohammad Yusuf pressed charges in the court against 14 accused in the two cases on Nov 29, 2008.

The detained are Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami leaders Mufti Abdul Hannan, Arif Hasan Sumaon, Shahadat Ullah Jewell, Hafez Maulana Abu Taher and Maulana Abdur Rauf. Maulana Akbar Hossain is on bail.

The case records say the two cases went to two speedy trial tribunals, yet the proceedings stalled. According to lawyers and records, the murder case failed to make headway due to absence of the investigation officer and other police officers.

The explosives case is waiting for a High Court directive.

As the case was not resolved within the stipulated 135 trial days due to the absence of the main witnesses, including the investigation officer, it went back to the Metropolitan Sessions Judges Court on May 24 last year.

    

Muhith's stance makes Ershad to stand against him.

"I don't understand why the names of those who devastated hundreds of thousands of small investors by looting money from the share market won't be made public officially."Jatyia Party chairman H M Ershad, a key ally of the ruling alliance, says he is surprised as the finance minister declined to disclose the names of those responsible for the recent share market debacle.

Hours after the stocks probe committee submitted the report to the finance minister on Thursday, Muhith declined to disclose the names that were mentioned in the report since the committee has recommended further investigation.

The deposed military dictator urged the government to give exemplary punishment of those responsible for the stocks crash and compensation for the investors who suffered the losses.

"The government will be in trouble if anyone responsible for the stocks debacle goes unpunished," he said.