\\\'100,000 hectares of land may emerge from Bay\\\'

Some 100,000 hectares of land could emerge from Bay of Bengal as about 7 billion tonnes of silt fall into it each year from China and India, says Environment and Forests Minister Anwar Hossain Manju. 'Another Bangladesh is emerging from the Bay, he said. 'One hundred thousand hectares will emerge from the Bay as about 7 billion tonnes of silt fall in the Bay each year from China and India,' he said, adding the vast land which is emerging could be used in agriculture.’ The minister made the remarks while addressing a workshop at Cirdap auditorium in the city on Sunday. The United Nation Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in association with the Bangladesh government and USAID orgainsed the inception workshop on ‘Strengthening the Environment, Forestry and Climate change Capacities of the Environment and Forests Ministry and its Agencies’, according to a news agency.