Experts Saturday said cultivation of organic product is the only way to provide safe food at lower cost.
They urged the government for providing initial help to the organic farmers in marketing their produces to boost production.
The call came at the launching ceremony of a book titled "Shamvabanamoy Organic" (potential organic), organised by Hunger Free World (HFW), a NGO, held at its office in the city.
The farmers can be reintroduced with the farming methods they forgot by reading this book, publishers of the book said at the programme.
Entomologist Dr ANM Rezaul Karim, agriculture expert and media personality Rezaul Karim Siddique, HFW Bangladesh representative Ataur Rahman Miton, chairman of Subaltern Communication Research Centre (SCRC) Delowar Jahan, among others, spoke on the occasion.
Rezaul Karim Siddiqe said that the government should provide all necessary help to the farmers in production level to marketing level.
The organic farmers should have access to mainstream markets, he said.
"Farmers should be provided and also should be introduced with new technologies both of local and global," he said.
Dr Karim said that use of chemical fertiliser and pesticides has increased manifold, which is causing crop pollution.
"It is affecting human health and its worst victims are the children," he said.
The government agricultural agencies should adapt organic farming as their regular programme, he commented.
Delowar Jahan said that organic farming can reduce production cost and can increase yield.
"It is propaganda by the pesticide and chemical sellers that organic farming reduces production," he said.
"In 80s, the country's 90 per cent crop fields were organic. Pesticide and chemical fertiliser enter the country with introduction of alien crop seeds in the country," he commented.
"Organic farming can squeeze production cost by 30-40 per cent and can increase production by 10-20 per cent compared to that of chemical farming," he added.
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