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Dollar crisis hurts pesticide imports, may hit crop output

by Sohel Parvez in The Daily Star, Feb 14, 2023Crop protection chemical sellers in Bangladesh are facing difficulty in opening letters of credit amid banks’ lack of interest owing to the crunch of the US dollar. This raises concerns about a shortage of pesticides and other similar inputs that could affect the productivity of crops such as boro rice. The worry comes at a time when farmers are growing the boro paddy, the biggest rice…