, May 3 -- Dhaka, May 3 (UNB) - Bangladesh will pull out of the loan programme if the International Monetary Fund (IMF) imposes additional conditions for the release of upcoming tranches of the US$4.7 billion loan, warned Chief Adviser's Special Assistant Anisuzzaman Chowdhury.

He made the statement on Saturday while speaking at a budget seminar held at the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council in Farmgate, Dhaka.

"Bangladesh will withdraw if the IMF imposes more conditions for loan releasing. Because if all the conditions of the organisation are followed, the economy will become weak," said Anisuzzaman.

At the seminar ahead of Bangladesh's final recognition as a developing country next year, agricultural economists urged the govern...