They said due to the double shocks of a protracted pandemic and ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, food prices have witnessed a huge hike. Experts have called for increasing production in the agricultural sector to ensure food security in Bangladesh. They claim that the figures for food production shown every year are not correct. As a result, […]
Increasing trend of farm mechanization
A group of researchers from the Dhaka office of the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - Akhter Ahmed, Latiful Haque, Aminul Islam, Farha Sufian, and Salauddin Tauseef - analysed agricultural performance of Bangladesh based on a panel data set derived from Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) for 2011 and 2015. A number of […]
Rice harvest declines, despite output growth
Although rice production in Bangladesh has tripled in more than four and half decades, both agriculture and rice production growth rates have slowed down. Rice production and consumption remains the main driver of agricultural growth, and rice harvest trends in gross domestic production (GDP), said a panel of agro-scientists on Wednesday. Agriculture growth tops the […]