Adressing problems in agriculture
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
AN estimated 20 per cent of the crops grown in the country are lost due to pest attack and diseases. A good part of arable land also remains unused. In many areas, cultivation does not take place in all the cultivable seasons. We could achieve food autarky by addressing these areas. It would enable the country to explore more and more export avenues.
So it is needed to focus more on pest and disease control, identifying all area-wise follow lands to bring them under year-round cultivation. Besides, it is also necessary to maintain the land fertility and to improve crop management as well as farm practices to be able to keep up production coping with urbanisation and industrialisation, which take up our valuable cultivable land.
We have many agricultural development programmes to cover these three areas. But a good combination of meeting the needs of food, home and economy is absent. That's why we can't feed all our population.
Sihabur Rahman
Mymensign
So it is needed to focus more on pest and disease control, identifying all area-wise follow lands to bring them under year-round cultivation. Besides, it is also necessary to maintain the land fertility and to improve crop management as well as farm practices to be able to keep up production coping with urbanisation and industrialisation, which take up our valuable cultivable land.
We have many agricultural development programmes to cover these three areas. But a good combination of meeting the needs of food, home and economy is absent. That's why we can't feed all our population.
Sihabur Rahman
Mymensign