City Desk :
Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury said the government is working to build a hunger-free country by 2030.
“We are taking various effective steps to achieve SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) by 2030,” she said this on Wednesday while speaking at a seminar titled “Agriculture, Nutrition and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) Results Dissemination” at the Krishibid Institute, Bangladesh (KIB) in the city.
Additional Secretary of the Agriculture Ministry Abdul Halim, Country Representative of IFPRI Dr Akhter Ahmed and representatives of different government and non-government organizations, among other, addressed the seminar.
Matia said the government is developing stress-tolerant varieties of crops to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change. Despite having little contribution to global carbon emission, Bangladesh is bearing the burden of excessive carbon emission caused by the industrialised nations, which are mainly responsible for global warming, a great challenge for the planet, she added.
Matia laid emphasis on equal access of women to agriculture sector to increase crop production, which eventually will help address the malnutrition problem in Bangladesh.
Other speakers said Bangladesh has done remarkably well in coming down malnutrition rate particularly stunting children in the past couple of years.
At present, stunting rate of under five children is 36, which was above 40 percent few years ago, they said adding that there are challenges for Bangladesh to address malnutrition problem as the country is facing higher under nutrition rate compared to different developing states.
There is a close link between nutrition and development, the speakers said adding the country has to overcome the malnutrition problem through intensifying its efforts.
Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury said the government is working to build a hunger-free country by 2030.
“We are taking various effective steps to achieve SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) by 2030,” she said this on Wednesday while speaking at a seminar titled “Agriculture, Nutrition and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) Results Dissemination” at the Krishibid Institute, Bangladesh (KIB) in the city.
Additional Secretary of the Agriculture Ministry Abdul Halim, Country Representative of IFPRI Dr Akhter Ahmed and representatives of different government and non-government organizations, among other, addressed the seminar.
Matia said the government is developing stress-tolerant varieties of crops to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change. Despite having little contribution to global carbon emission, Bangladesh is bearing the burden of excessive carbon emission caused by the industrialised nations, which are mainly responsible for global warming, a great challenge for the planet, she added.
Matia laid emphasis on equal access of women to agriculture sector to increase crop production, which eventually will help address the malnutrition problem in Bangladesh.
Other speakers said Bangladesh has done remarkably well in coming down malnutrition rate particularly stunting children in the past couple of years.
At present, stunting rate of under five children is 36, which was above 40 percent few years ago, they said adding that there are challenges for Bangladesh to address malnutrition problem as the country is facing higher under nutrition rate compared to different developing states.
There is a close link between nutrition and development, the speakers said adding the country has to overcome the malnutrition problem through intensifying its efforts.
