Naogaon, May 2 -- Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder said on Thursday that the nutritional value of rice is lost due to excessive trimming and polishing.

"So, a law was enacted to ban polishing the rice, and it would be implemented from Aman season on," he added.

The minister was speaking at a meeting with the officials of the Food Department on the occasion of the Boro paddy-rice collection campaign at Circuit House in Naogaon on Thursday afternoon.

He said that 16 to 20 lakh metric tonnes of rice are wasted due to excessive rice trimming and polishing. "If there is a law, this huge quantity of rice will be saved, and consumers can buy rice at a lower price."

Regarding price tags on rice sacks, the food minister said that the work...