Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSIC) has reduced the price of potassium iodate (iodine), the main ingredient in iodized salt. On 20 January, BSIC General Manager and Project Director Akhil Ranjan Tarafdar signed a letter signed by the CIDD Project to Reduce the Price of Potassium Iodate (Iodine) through the Universal Iodized Salt Making Program (CIDD). .

In the last 2017-18 financial year, the price of potassium iodate was reduced from Tk 4,700 per kg to Tk 3,000. In the current situation, as a part of the assistance to the salt factories, the price of potassium iodate has been further reduced to Tk 2,500 per kg, he said. Mushtaq Hasan NDC.

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