Directorate General of Food

HISTORY:

Following the famine in the then Bengal this department of food was first created in 1943. Since then a Department of food has been in existence except briefly for seven months in 1955 when there was an attempt to abolish it and merge it within the Department of Agriculture. After establishing Bangladesh as a new country,Directorate General of Food had been developed under the ministry of Food & Civil supplies. Since the area comprising Bangladesh has generally been deficit In food, the Department of Food has become one of the very important departments of the Government of Bangladeshi.

ALLOCATION OF FUNCTIONS:

The functions allocated to the Directorates of Food are give below :
            a. Management and operation of country’s overall food system.
            b. Implementation of national food policy strategies.
            c. Establishment of dependable national food security system.
            d. To establish uninterrupted supply of food rains.
            e. Preparation and execution of various development projects in the Food sector.
            f. Watch over food supply position in the Country.
            g. Procurement and distribution of food grains and other food item including sugar, edible oil, salt etc.
            h. To ensure supply of food-stuffs through rationing and other, distribution channel.
            i. To ensure stability of the market prices of foodstuffs.
            j. To ensure preservation of the adequate food reserve and quality of the stock.
            k. Matters relating to food budget, accounts and finance, food planning research and monitoring.
            l. To ensure minimum price of the produce to the growers of food grains.
            m. Inquiries and statistics on any of the subjects allotted to this Directorate.

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