Tackling food situation
Saturday, 15 March 2008
In last two years, Bangladesh has been suffering for not being able to maintain an adequate stock of foodgrains due to natural disasters. For that reason, the price of essentials has reached the highest level at this moment. We, the common people, are suffering and cannot keep up with soaring high prices of daily essentials as well as maintain our earlier standard of living. We have also become totally dependent on other countries for rice, onion, vegetable oil and so many other essential items.
Meanwhile, our big neighbouring country has not been responding in the right manner to our demand and, as the common perception goes, even they do politics with us so that they try to promote their own interest. Therefore, it is now the time to reactivate our planning exercise in order to help maintain public food stocks at a comfortable level. That being the situation, we should cultivate our land in a proper way and stop land robbery so that we can grow more food and save ourselves from food shortages from time to time. Furthermore, it is our duty to put an effective mechanism in place as soon as possible to utilise every inch of land in the right way.
Nazir Sabri
Kanchkura, Uttarkhan
Dhaka
Meanwhile, our big neighbouring country has not been responding in the right manner to our demand and, as the common perception goes, even they do politics with us so that they try to promote their own interest. Therefore, it is now the time to reactivate our planning exercise in order to help maintain public food stocks at a comfortable level. That being the situation, we should cultivate our land in a proper way and stop land robbery so that we can grow more food and save ourselves from food shortages from time to time. Furthermore, it is our duty to put an effective mechanism in place as soon as possible to utilise every inch of land in the right way.
Nazir Sabri
Kanchkura, Uttarkhan
Dhaka