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Satkhira found suitable for salt production
Southwestern district of Satkhira has been found economically feasible for salt production. opening up prospect of attaining self-sufficiency tn salt, reports UNB.
Experts at Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) said bright prospect for salt production has been found In a recent experiments In the district.
Two demonstration plots, each measuring one acre, in Shyamnagar upazlla produced 110 maunds of salt In only two months (March-April).
According to the experts, quality of soil has been found "quite suitable" for salt farming and an acre would produce not less than 200 maunds in a sea son
They quoted field surveyors as saying that at least 20.000 acres would be found for salt production tn five upazllas of Satkhira. which could yield
nearly two lakh tons annually
Salt Is now produced in coastal areas of Cox's Bazar and Chittagong on about 35.000 acres with production potential of seven lakh tons of salt a year.
The country's annual consumption. both for human and Industrial, is about seven lakh tons.
But. according to production trend over the previous ten years, average annual production stands at about 45 lakh tons because of yield loss almost every alternate year due to natural calamity, leaving Import as the only substitute for bridging the production-demand gap
BSCIC experts observed that commercial production in Satkhira would make up the shortfall saving about Tk 50 crore tn foreign exchange, spent every year for Import.
Moreover, they said, the
country will need an additional two lakh tons of salt within the next ten years and an aiterna tive production pocket has to be found out as acreage cannot be expanded in Cox's Bazar and Chittagong belt.
BSCIC said farmers in Satkhira are getting Interested in salt production after the success of experiments Ac cording to the corporation, salt farming is much more cost effective than shrimp and poddy
Commercial salt production will also solve the acute unem pfoyment problem which now exists in Satkhira district, ac commodating at least 20.000 workforce for a six month pe: riod each year. BSCIC added.