Thrust on improving packaging to boost frozen fish export
Friday, 16 November 2007
Our Correspondent
CHITTAGONG, Nov 15: Packaging system of frozen fish needed to be improved to boost its export. The very importance of packaging should be considered in the context of the changing situation the scope of export under the traditional production and processing system was being reduced gradually, said EPB Vice-chairman Mohammad Shahabullah.
Shahabullah was speaking the chief guest at the workshop on "Packaging of fish product" jointly arranged by the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), Bangladesh Frozen Food Exporters Association (BFFEA) and Swiss Import Development Programme (SIDP) at a city hotel yesterday.
EPB Vice-Chairman described the very contribution of the frozen fishes in the export trade of the country as remarkable and stressed on the need for improving the existing packing system.
He said, during the last fiscal, a huge quantity of shrimps worth Tk. 300 million was exported which is 12.24 per cent more than the preceding fiscal.
EPB VP further said, Bangladesh was likely to achieve more success in this sector.Per acre shrimp production in Bangladesh was less than the countries which were our competitors. So he proposed that the volume of export on this head might be augmented through ensuring the system of production at the semi intensive level in the country.
CHITTAGONG, Nov 15: Packaging system of frozen fish needed to be improved to boost its export. The very importance of packaging should be considered in the context of the changing situation the scope of export under the traditional production and processing system was being reduced gradually, said EPB Vice-chairman Mohammad Shahabullah.
Shahabullah was speaking the chief guest at the workshop on "Packaging of fish product" jointly arranged by the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), Bangladesh Frozen Food Exporters Association (BFFEA) and Swiss Import Development Programme (SIDP) at a city hotel yesterday.
EPB Vice-Chairman described the very contribution of the frozen fishes in the export trade of the country as remarkable and stressed on the need for improving the existing packing system.
He said, during the last fiscal, a huge quantity of shrimps worth Tk. 300 million was exported which is 12.24 per cent more than the preceding fiscal.
EPB VP further said, Bangladesh was likely to achieve more success in this sector.Per acre shrimp production in Bangladesh was less than the countries which were our competitors. So he proposed that the volume of export on this head might be augmented through ensuring the system of production at the semi intensive level in the country.