ACD Circular Letter No. 02: Inclusion of Cattle Fattening in the 5,000 Crore Taka Agriculture Refinance Scheme

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Bangladesh Bank
(Central Bank of Bangladesh)
Head Office
Motijheel, Dhaka-1000
Bangladesh.

Agricultural Credit Department

07 Chaitra, 1429
ACD Circular Letter No. 02 Date: ------------- 21 March, 2023

Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer
All Scheduled Banks of Bangladesh
Dhaka/Rajshahi.

Regarding the formulation and operation of a 5,000 (Five Thousand) Crore Taka refinance scheme for the agriculture sector to ensure food security of the country.

Dear Sir,

With reference to paragraph 8(k) of ACD Circular No. 07, dated 17 November 2022, on the subject cited above, it is informed that the 'cattle fattening' sector has been included under the 5,000 Crore Taka refinance scheme for the agriculture sector to ensure food security of the country, among the sectors mentioned in the said paragraph.

In this regard, you are instructed to send the consolidated monthly statement of loan distribution under the aforementioned scheme (as per the attached table) by the 7th working day of the following month.

Furthermore, all other instructions mentioned in the aforementioned circular shall remain unchanged.

This instruction shall take effect immediately.

This instruction is issued under the powers conferred by Section 45 of the Bank Company Act, 1991.

Yours faithfully,
(Signature)
(Md. Abul Kalam Azad)
Director (ACD)
Phone: 9530138

Enclosure: 1 (one) page.

Phone: 88-02-9550448, 9554899, IP: 88-02-55685001-6, Fax: 88-02-9530479, www.bb.org.bd

Attached Table

Consolidated Statement of Loan Distribution (Monthly Basis) Under the Refinance Scheme Formulated for the Agriculture Sector to Ensure Food Security of the Country

Name of the Bank:
Period of the Statement: Up to --/--

(In Lakh Taka)

Name of the District	Name of the Upazila	Name of the Branch	Amount of Allocation	Amount of Approved Loan	Amount of Distributed Loan						Rate of Loan Distribution Compared to Allocation (%)	Number of Beneficiary Sharecroppers	Number of Beneficiary Farmers/Interested Parties
					Paddy	Fisheries	Poultry	Milk Production	Cattle Fattening	Vegetables	Fruits & Flowers
Total