Business Desk :
Experts and industry insiders at a city dialogue called for establishing more agro-processing plants and cold storage across the country.
They said these facilities will help ensure better use of the agricultural products. “Cold storage and processing plants can be established across the country on a public-private partnership basis,” said Chaitanya Kumar Das, Director of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) under the Ministry of Agriculture.
According to a statement, he was speaking as the chief guest at a dialogue held recently at the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI).
The DCCI and USAID’s Agricultural Value Chains Project (AVC) jointly organised the “Pre-season dialogue on tomato” to find out the potentialities of tomato and establish tomato processing plants, especially in those areas where tomatoes are grown in abundance.
DCCI former Vice-President M Shoaib Chowhdury presented a keynote paper. He said Bangladesh produces 40,00,000 metric tons of tomato every year, but the country has to buy tomato in off-season at a high price due to post-harvest loss and lack of cold storage facilities.
He said Bangladesh produces 40,00,000 MT tomato every year but due to post harvest loss and lack of cold storages we have to buy tomato in off season with a high price. Bangladesh has huge potential in tomato processing. At present Bangladesh is processing only 7% tomato of its total production. He also urged for establishing cold storages across the country.
Experts and industry insiders at a city dialogue called for establishing more agro-processing plants and cold storage across the country.
They said these facilities will help ensure better use of the agricultural products. “Cold storage and processing plants can be established across the country on a public-private partnership basis,” said Chaitanya Kumar Das, Director of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) under the Ministry of Agriculture.
According to a statement, he was speaking as the chief guest at a dialogue held recently at the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI).
The DCCI and USAID’s Agricultural Value Chains Project (AVC) jointly organised the “Pre-season dialogue on tomato” to find out the potentialities of tomato and establish tomato processing plants, especially in those areas where tomatoes are grown in abundance.
DCCI former Vice-President M Shoaib Chowhdury presented a keynote paper. He said Bangladesh produces 40,00,000 metric tons of tomato every year, but the country has to buy tomato in off-season at a high price due to post-harvest loss and lack of cold storage facilities.
He said Bangladesh produces 40,00,000 MT tomato every year but due to post harvest loss and lack of cold storages we have to buy tomato in off season with a high price. Bangladesh has huge potential in tomato processing. At present Bangladesh is processing only 7% tomato of its total production. He also urged for establishing cold storages across the country.
