Experts at a consultation put emphasis on branding Bangladeshi black-tiger shrimp (BTS) globally to boost export earnings from the sector that has remained stunted for more than a decade. They also suggested bringing massive infrastructural development in shrimp-growing regions with necessary investment to get desired output and exports from the newly-adopted vannamei species. The experts […]
Shrimp sector plagued by structural problems: Experts
Experts said that Bangladesh’s shrimp production sector continues to be plagued by significant structural problems although there have been some improvements in yields and farmers’ adoption of modern technologies, including in farm and feed management. They were addressing a press conference at the Centre for Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) auditorium […]
Shrimp farmers barely get financial support: study
Shrimp farmers in Bangladesh barely get any financial support, especially from formal institutions, as they lack the required collateral, according to a study by the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). CGIAR is a global research partnership that works for a food-secure future, dedicated to transforming food, land, and water systems amid the climate […]
Policy reforms to tap full potentials of aquaculture
Bangladesh has made a revolutionary progress in fish aquaculture during the last several decades. But, still there is need for some policy reforms to tap full potentials of the sector, speakers at a programme opined. Creating greater access to fish as a source of nutrition among poor households in the future will require these policy […]
Fish farming pulls 20 lakh out of poverty: study
More than 20 lakh of the 1.80 crore Bangladeshis who escaped poverty between 2000 and 2010 managed to do so because of aquaculture, said International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), raising the need for the government to give this area of agriculture special focus. The massive expansion of aquaculture in Bangladesh was a “blue revolution”, […]