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”, […]
Bangladesh experiences fish farming revolution
Bangladesh is experiencing a quiet revolution in its domestic fish farming market, reveals a recent study by the Inter-national Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).Debunking the traditional view that fish farming in Bangladesh is mainly a subsistence occupation, the study shows that the market for farmed fish has grown by a massive 25 times over the […]