"The enthusiastic youths of the country should create job opportunities for others instead of running after for their own jobs," she said at a programme in the city on Thursday.
"The government is ready to provide them with all kinds of assistance in this regard," Hasina added.
The premier was addressing the inaugural function of a subsidy money distribution programme for waiving interest on agriculture loan of cooperative societies' farmers at the city's Bangabandhu International Conference Centre.
She also underscored the need for working on co-operative basis for strengthening rural economy.
"The rural economy must be strengthened for ensuring food production," she said adding that it is possible to revitalise rural economy only through co-operative movement.
Hasina also called upon the farmers of the co-operative societies to repay bank loans in time.
"You (farmers) must repay the loan in time. None, including us, will waive the loan interest in the future," she warned.
"You repay the NGO loan money with high interest rates, but do not return the government's loans with lesser interests."
"Such a trend has also been seen among businessmen," she said.
Sheikh Hasina termed agriculture and farmers as the main driving forces of country's economy and said her government is working ceaselessly for boosting the sector.
She also promised to continue providing subsidies to the farmers.
She pointed out that her government had given hefty subsidy after the formation of her earlier government in 1996.
She also upheld Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's contribution's towards a flourishing agriculture sector and small investments in the country.
Hasina alleged that the 4-Party Alliance had stopped various 'pragmatic' steps of her government for development of the cooperative farmers later.
"If they had continued with our pace of work, the country would have advanced far more," she observed.
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam and State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Jahangir Kabir Nanak, among other, also addressed the function.
Later, Sheikh Hasina handed over cheques to 20 farmers.
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