'Snake venom has tremendous export potential for country'
Tuesday, 17 July 2007
The country can earn huge foreign exchange by exporting snake venom, experts told a meeting of the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) in the city Sunday, reports UNB.
"There is huge potential for the country to export snake venom, and we should concentrate on it," said Dhaka University Zoology Department Professor Sohrab Uddin Sarker.
Held at the EPB conference room, the meeting was also addressed, among others, by the EPB director general, Gram Bangla Unnayan Committee executive director, and representatives from the country's snake-charmer community.
In his address, Sohrab 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 snake-charmer community and involving them in these activities, and inclusion of snake venom into the export basket.
They also said, EPB would take necessary steps if a formal proposal is made in this regard, according to a press release.
"There is huge potential for the country to export snake venom, and we should concentrate on it," said Dhaka University Zoology Department Professor Sohrab Uddin Sarker.
Held at the EPB conference room, the meeting was also addressed, among others, by the EPB director general, Gram Bangla Unnayan Committee executive director, and representatives from the country's snake-charmer community.
In his address, Sohrab 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 snake-charmer community and involving them in these activities, and inclusion of snake venom into the export basket.
They also said, EPB would take necessary steps if a formal proposal is made in this regard, according to a press release.