Bangladesh can earn huge foreign exchange by exporting snake venom, experts told this at a meeting of the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) held at its conference room Sunday, reports UNB.
Professor of the department of Zoology of Dhaka University Sohrab Uddin Sarker said: "There is huge potential for Bangladesh to export snake venom; we should concentrate on it."
The meeting was addressed, among others, by the EPB Director General, Executive Director of Gram Bangla Unnayan Committee and representatives from the country's Bede community.
Speaking on the occasion, Sohrab Uddin Sarker focused on snake farming and its environmental merits and demerits, and potential of scientific snake production.
The EPB officials stressed the need for commercial snake farming and venom production, infrastructure development, organising the Bede community and involving them in the activities, and inclusion of snake venom into the export basket.
They said EPB would take necessary steps if a formal proposal were made in this regard.
Snake venom has tremendous export potential for Bangladesh: experts
FE Team | Published: July 17, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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