Food Minister Afroza Khanam has proposed constructing a wheat silo with Russian funding on the unused land of Payra seaport in Patuakhali. She made this proposal on Tuesday during a meeting with Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh Alexander Khozin at the Ministry of Food in the Secretariat, suggesting a storage capacity of two to five lakh metric tons.
During the meeting, the Russian ambassador proposed exporting wheat to Bangladesh on a government-to-government basis and suggested building a wheat silo in Maheshkhali, Cox's Bazar. In response, the Food Minister mentioned the scarcity of land in Cox's Bazar and proposed the unused land of Payra seaport as an alternative.
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