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are working on the list to make it more realistic and finally to see the number is increasing,' he said adding, 'our main aim is to enlist all those who have at least half an acre of land to cultivate Boor crop.'

The government has already set a target to achieve Boor yield at 19 million tonnes during the upcoming crop season that is expected to record a rise by 0.5 million tones over the previous year's total production.

To facilitate irrigation for the farmers, the government earlier directed the Power Development Board (PDB) to ensure 1,664 MW electricity supply to the REB to run the power-driven pumps. The number of irrigation pumps is now 1.5 million including 0.25 million run by electricity across the country, the ministry sources said.

The caretaker government for the first time earmarked Tk 7.5 billion in the 2006-07 budgets for direct subsidy on diesel. It distributed Tk 2.50 billion during the same year.

The caretaker government also allocated Tk 5.40 billion as diesel subsidy for the fiscal year 2007-08 but due to a scandal on distribution of the subsidy it stopped the programmed for 2008- 2009 fiscal year.

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Criticism of farm subsidy

Farm Subsidies Harm Taxpayers, Consumers, and Farmers

This year's expiration of federal agriculture policies gives Congress an important opportunity to take a fresh look at the $25 billion spent annually on farm subsidies. Current rate on farm policies are so poorly designed that they actually worsen the conditions they claim to solve. For example:

Farm subsidies are intended to alleviate farmer poverty, but the majority of subsidies go to commercial farms with average incomes of $200,000 and net worth's of nearly $2 million.

Farm subsidies are intended to raise farmer incomes by remedying low crop prices. Instead, they promote overproduction and therefore lower prices further.

Farm subsidies are intended to help struggling family farmers. Instead, they harm them by excluding them from most subsidies, financing the con-solidation of family farms, and raising land values to levels that prevent young people from entering farming.

Farm subsidies are intended to be consumer-friendly and taxpayer-friendly. Instead, they cost Americans billion each year in higher taxes and higher food costs.

Lawmakers would be hard-pressed to enact a set of policies that are more destructive to farmers, taxpayers, and consumers than the current farm policies. For these and other reasons, organizations representing taxpayers, consumers, environmentalists, international trade, Third World countries, and even farmers themselves have united around the shared conclusion that the current farm subsidy system is failing and in dire need of reform during this year's reauthorization.

A Solution Seeking a Problem

Before delving into the minutiae of farm policy, lawmakers should first determine what subsidies are intended to accomplish. When President Frank?lin D. Roosevelt introduced farm subsidies in the 1930s, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace called them 'a temporary solution to deal with an emergency.'[1] That emergency was the collapsing farm incomes that afflicted the 25 percent of the population living on farms.

Today, farmers account for just 1 percent of