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 on Friday.
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.
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 on Friday.
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.
