Making Munshiganj hub for onion growing, storage
Since two decades Munshiganj has been hub for potato growing in Bangladesh. Potato grows in all districts nowadays. Production of potato has cross annual demand. Quantity of export is not encouraging. Government provides 20% cash incentive to potato exporters but negligible quantity has been exported during last a few years. On the other hand, even increasing production of onion in recent years, we could not grow enough onions to cater our full need.
In this situation I have a proposal. Agriculture Extension Department should motivate potato farmers of Munshiganj to dedicate half of their potato fields to grow onion. Along with motivation farmers should be encouraged providing onion seeds, fertilizer and know-how for growing and preserve onions. As there are many potato cold storages in Munshiganj half of the capacity of each potato cold storage should be kept reserve for storing onions. This measures will assist the country to grow enough onions and store onions for lien season. This program will reduce production of excess potato and potato growers will get reasonable price for their produce. In Dhaka retail market potato is available @ Tk15/ per kg now. After transport cost, profit of whole seller, profit of retailers farmers are not getting more than Tk7/ per kg. They should get Tk10/ minimum. Owing to excess production farmers are incurring lose. On the other hand consumers are buying Tk20/ kg onion at Tk45/ to 50/ in Dhaka city. We need to increase production on onion to fullfil the gap between demand and supply and balance right of farmers and consumers.
Md Ashraf Hossain
Bashabo, Dhaka
Bangladesh’s Potential in Cyber Security Business
Cyber crime has become a serious concern in our day since people’s personal lives and professional operations are increasingly performed online. In such circumstances, cyber security is the only method to secure our resources now and in the future.
It is difficult to predict cyber threats since cyber criminals will attack and harm digital assets regardless of when or where they target. For example, the number of ransom ware hacks globally grew by around 25% between 2018 and 2019. Cyber security engineers are being motivated to design new software in order to fix this worldwide problem. As a result, the worldwide market value of cyber security is expected to reach $42.42 billion by 2020.
Bangladesh might be the market leader in cyber security. Bangladesh is ranked 53rd on the Global Cyber Security Index 2020, according to a UN study. Bangladesh received 81.27 points out of a possible 100 points in the ranking, according to the statistics. If the government makes use of the large number of CSE and IT graduates that graduate in Bangladesh each year, and if the government provides strong incentives to the private sector, Bangladesh will be able to bring in a large amount of money from this sector.
Abid Hossain Auikya
Student, North-South University
