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Food Security

CA calls for boosting farm output

UNB, Dhaka
Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday called for boosting domestic food production to ensure food security.
He made the call while addressing a function on World Food Day at Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre.
The head of the caretaker government strongly suggested a switch from the rampant chemicaldependent farming to ensure sustainable agriculture system through innovative alternatives.
He praised the farmers for reaping bumper harvests by tackling successive natural disasters and said food stock now stands at nearly 13 lakh tonnes, the highest ineight years. • •
' ‘A? fhb funtubh, hb ahriolihcdd’ that agriculture day will be observed every year in the country to recognise the fanners' untiring labour in food production for food security.
He also announced that an agriculture museum will be set up in Dhaka to project the country's tradition of agriculture, its problems, innovations and potentialities to future generations.
The agriculture ministry organised the function. The theme of this year's World Food Day is “World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bio-energy”.
Agriculture Adviser CS Karim presided over the function while FAO representative in Bangladesh Ad Spijkers and Joint Secretary of Agriculture Ministry MA Momen also spoke. Advisers, special assistants, agriculturalists, NGO activists and government officials were present.
The CA told his audience that food security is threatened due to less production of food compared to growing demand of population in various countries and impact of climate change on crops.
“The impact of climate change is visible in our country. Two back-
to-back floods and Cyclone Sidr have done massive loss to our crop production and agriculture sector as well," he told the function.
He said the county has carried out efforts to import food from abroad to meet the food shortages although different rice-exporting countries have stopped exporting rice.
Under this situation, the CA said his government has taken the strategy to increase domestic food production and taken various pragmatic measures to that end.
As a result, thanks to hard labour and courage of the country's peasantry, bumper production of food crops, including rice, wheat and potato, was harvested
Later, the CA inaugurated a two-day agriculture few at the conference centre. J. > j ■ ‘ ‘ \