Export product development

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Bangladesh can earn over a billion US Dollars by exporting fruits alone. Thailand with its lesser array of fruits than Bangladesh earns presently several billion US Dollars from fruit and fruit products . Bangladesh has immense export prospects in a wide range of horticultural and floricultural products. Furniture, jewellery and crabs can soon be well earning export products with entrepreneurs taking an interest in them. Kitchen items ranging from chillies to vegetables can be exported in much greater quantities. But the exporters in these fields will have to be facilitated at the outset by official supports.
The increase in the number of unconventional export goods can happen quicker if the government starts a programme of new export product development to develop these products and get some exporters to start exporting them. In such new product development, stress must be on quality and goods packaging because both of these factors are extremely important to make a favourable initial impact on the markets and to sustain it
Shaheen Azad
DOHS
Dhaka