BSS, Rajshahi :
Concerted efforts is very vital for protecting agriculture along with freeing it from all sorts of pollution and contamination in the greater interests of rural poverty eradication coupled with social protection, speakers at a discussion here observed yesterday.
They termed the agriculture and its sub-sectors like fisheries and animal resources as very important and pointed out that there should be adequate measures for uplifting the sectors to meet up the gradually increasing demands of food and nutrition.
Forging social movement has become indispensable for ensuring safe food for all side by side with their food security.
The observations came at a discussion held at the conference hall of Deputy Commissioner in observance of the World Food Day-2015. “Social Protection and Agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty” was the main theme of the day.
District administration, Department of Agriculture Extension and Department of Food jointly organized the discussion.
Deputy Commissioner Mejbah Uddin Chowdhury addressed the discussion as chief guest with Hazrat Ali, Deputy Director of Department of Agriculture Extension, in the chair.
District Fisheries Officer Golam Rabbani, District Animal Resource Officer Dr Zulfikar Akhter Hossain, Principal Scientific Officer of Fruit Research Station Dr Alim Uddin and local unit CAB General Secretary Golam Mostofa also spoke.
Highlighting the success of the present government towards attaining food surplus DC Mejbah Uddin Chowdhury stressed the need for creating mass awareness to fight against the food adulteration malpractices.
He mentioned that the adulterated and contaminated foods always pose serious threat to the public health and called for taking punitive measures against the food adulterators and contaminators so that none more dare to commit such type of crimes.
The existing acts and the law enforcers alone would never be able to salvage the situation unless people from all walks of life became adequately aware about the harms of taking adulterated foods and took firm stand against such immoral mindset.
‘We need the people to come forward to stop these harmful practices,’ he added.
Taking part in the open discussion, the participants put forward a set of recommendations which included strong and regular monitoring of eateries, strong monitoring to prevent mixing formalin in milk and ban on preparing foods meant for selling under open sky and on the roadside.
BSS from Thakurgaon adds: There is no alternative to ensuring food and social protection and security of the poor, small and marginalised farmers and ethnic communities to break the vicious cycle of rural poverty.
The observations were made yesterday at a post-rally discussion organised by RDRS Bangladesh, an NGO, at Balia Union Federation Office under Sadar upazila of Thakurgaon to observe the World Food Day-2015 with the theme of ‘ Social Protection and Agriculture: Breaking the Cycle of Rural Poverty.’
The NGO organised the programmes under the ongoing five-year term ‘Improving Food Security Governance in South & Southeast Asia through Strengthened Participation of Organisations of Marginalised Farmers’ Regional Project.’
The regional project is being implemented in Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Myanmar to improve livelihood of 10.20 lakh marginalised households, including ethnic communities, with financial assistance of the European Union and Dan Church Aid.
Earlier, 420 male and female members of Balia, Debipur and Jagannathpur Union Federations along with government and NGO officials, students, teachers, civil society members, public representatives, professionals and local elite participated in the rally.
The rally that paraded the streets from Balia Union Federation Office to the nearby point of the Dhaka-Thakurgaon Highway where a huge human chain was formed before coming back to the discussion held at Balia Union Federation Office.
Chairman of local Balia union parishad Alhaj Afaz Uddin attended and addressed the post-rally discussion as the chief guest with Chairman of Balia Union Samaj Kallyan Federation Al Amin in the chair.
Project Manager of Regional Food Security Governance Project of RDRS Bangladesh for Thakurgaon Mahfuz Alam and its Agriculture Officer Mahfuzur Rahman also addressed the function.
The speakers stressed on ensuring food and social protection with security of all citizens by making the country self sufficient in food production through innovation and adoption of time-befitting agricultural technologies to adapt to climate change.
Concerted efforts is very vital for protecting agriculture along with freeing it from all sorts of pollution and contamination in the greater interests of rural poverty eradication coupled with social protection, speakers at a discussion here observed yesterday.
They termed the agriculture and its sub-sectors like fisheries and animal resources as very important and pointed out that there should be adequate measures for uplifting the sectors to meet up the gradually increasing demands of food and nutrition.
Forging social movement has become indispensable for ensuring safe food for all side by side with their food security.
The observations came at a discussion held at the conference hall of Deputy Commissioner in observance of the World Food Day-2015. “Social Protection and Agriculture: breaking the cycle of rural poverty” was the main theme of the day.
District administration, Department of Agriculture Extension and Department of Food jointly organized the discussion.
Deputy Commissioner Mejbah Uddin Chowdhury addressed the discussion as chief guest with Hazrat Ali, Deputy Director of Department of Agriculture Extension, in the chair.
District Fisheries Officer Golam Rabbani, District Animal Resource Officer Dr Zulfikar Akhter Hossain, Principal Scientific Officer of Fruit Research Station Dr Alim Uddin and local unit CAB General Secretary Golam Mostofa also spoke.
Highlighting the success of the present government towards attaining food surplus DC Mejbah Uddin Chowdhury stressed the need for creating mass awareness to fight against the food adulteration malpractices.
He mentioned that the adulterated and contaminated foods always pose serious threat to the public health and called for taking punitive measures against the food adulterators and contaminators so that none more dare to commit such type of crimes.
The existing acts and the law enforcers alone would never be able to salvage the situation unless people from all walks of life became adequately aware about the harms of taking adulterated foods and took firm stand against such immoral mindset.
‘We need the people to come forward to stop these harmful practices,’ he added.
Taking part in the open discussion, the participants put forward a set of recommendations which included strong and regular monitoring of eateries, strong monitoring to prevent mixing formalin in milk and ban on preparing foods meant for selling under open sky and on the roadside.
BSS from Thakurgaon adds: There is no alternative to ensuring food and social protection and security of the poor, small and marginalised farmers and ethnic communities to break the vicious cycle of rural poverty.
The observations were made yesterday at a post-rally discussion organised by RDRS Bangladesh, an NGO, at Balia Union Federation Office under Sadar upazila of Thakurgaon to observe the World Food Day-2015 with the theme of ‘ Social Protection and Agriculture: Breaking the Cycle of Rural Poverty.’
The NGO organised the programmes under the ongoing five-year term ‘Improving Food Security Governance in South & Southeast Asia through Strengthened Participation of Organisations of Marginalised Farmers’ Regional Project.’
The regional project is being implemented in Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Myanmar to improve livelihood of 10.20 lakh marginalised households, including ethnic communities, with financial assistance of the European Union and Dan Church Aid.
Earlier, 420 male and female members of Balia, Debipur and Jagannathpur Union Federations along with government and NGO officials, students, teachers, civil society members, public representatives, professionals and local elite participated in the rally.
The rally that paraded the streets from Balia Union Federation Office to the nearby point of the Dhaka-Thakurgaon Highway where a huge human chain was formed before coming back to the discussion held at Balia Union Federation Office.
Chairman of local Balia union parishad Alhaj Afaz Uddin attended and addressed the post-rally discussion as the chief guest with Chairman of Balia Union Samaj Kallyan Federation Al Amin in the chair.
Project Manager of Regional Food Security Governance Project of RDRS Bangladesh for Thakurgaon Mahfuz Alam and its Agriculture Officer Mahfuzur Rahman also addressed the function.
The speakers stressed on ensuring food and social protection with security of all citizens by making the country self sufficient in food production through innovation and adoption of time-befitting agricultural technologies to adapt to climate change.
