Business Desk :
Value added crops production, land zoning and Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) will get priority in agriculture policy to be passed soon, Dr. Md. Abdur Rouf, additional secretary of the agriculture ministry.
“For export competitiveness GAP is must for agriculture. Agriculture is one of our best options for export diversification,” he said while speaking at a seminar on Thursday.
He said Bangladesh is moving from traditional agriculture to commercial agriculture and a plan has been taken to double agriculture production by 2030.
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) in cooperation with USAID’s Agriculture Value Chain (AVC) Project organised the seminar on “Knowledge Dissemination on Bangladesh GAP”.
Additional Director of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) Krishibid Kazi Md. Saiful Islam presented the keynote paper. DCCI Director Imran Ahmed, DAE’s Additional Director Md. Azahar Ali and DCCI Secretary General AHM Rezaul Kabir spoke at the seminar.
It was told in the seminar that in vegetable production Bangladesh is 3rd in the world. Bangladesh’s position in rice production is 4th, in potato production is 8th, in mango production is 7th. In tea production Bangladesh’s position is 4th and in fruit production Bangladesh is in 28th position in the world.
Bangladesh exports around 100 types of fruits and vegetables to 40 countries mainly to Middle East and Europe and demand of safe and quality food produced under GAP have been increasing day by day.
Abdur Rouf said similar to the international global GAP, DAE is trying to establish Bangladesh GAP in the country to increase agro export. He said Bangladesh exported vegetables worth $81.03 million and agricultural products worth $553.17 million in 2016-17 fiscal year.
Krishibid Kazi Md. Saiful Islam said internationally GAP is practiced for safe food. He said Bangladesh farmers are not very much aware about GAP as well as Bangladesh has shortages of GAP auditors, trainers, technology, certification bodies and testing laboratories. He said GAP is essential not only for agriculture export but it is now a demand of local market as well.
He said Bangladesh needs to strengthen its certification body. For capacity building, private sector, DAE, agriculture ministry, Bangladesh Agriculture Research Council and all concerned stakeholders need to act pro-actively to make GAP familiar to farmers, he added.
GAP is an internationally practiced method to ensure safe and sustainable agriculture production.
GAP is a set of principles, regulations and technical recommendations applicable to production, processing and transporting addressing human health care, environment protection and improvement of working conditions.
Value added crops production, land zoning and Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) will get priority in agriculture policy to be passed soon, Dr. Md. Abdur Rouf, additional secretary of the agriculture ministry.
“For export competitiveness GAP is must for agriculture. Agriculture is one of our best options for export diversification,” he said while speaking at a seminar on Thursday.
He said Bangladesh is moving from traditional agriculture to commercial agriculture and a plan has been taken to double agriculture production by 2030.
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) in cooperation with USAID’s Agriculture Value Chain (AVC) Project organised the seminar on “Knowledge Dissemination on Bangladesh GAP”.
Additional Director of Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) Krishibid Kazi Md. Saiful Islam presented the keynote paper. DCCI Director Imran Ahmed, DAE’s Additional Director Md. Azahar Ali and DCCI Secretary General AHM Rezaul Kabir spoke at the seminar.
It was told in the seminar that in vegetable production Bangladesh is 3rd in the world. Bangladesh’s position in rice production is 4th, in potato production is 8th, in mango production is 7th. In tea production Bangladesh’s position is 4th and in fruit production Bangladesh is in 28th position in the world.
Bangladesh exports around 100 types of fruits and vegetables to 40 countries mainly to Middle East and Europe and demand of safe and quality food produced under GAP have been increasing day by day.
Abdur Rouf said similar to the international global GAP, DAE is trying to establish Bangladesh GAP in the country to increase agro export. He said Bangladesh exported vegetables worth $81.03 million and agricultural products worth $553.17 million in 2016-17 fiscal year.
Krishibid Kazi Md. Saiful Islam said internationally GAP is practiced for safe food. He said Bangladesh farmers are not very much aware about GAP as well as Bangladesh has shortages of GAP auditors, trainers, technology, certification bodies and testing laboratories. He said GAP is essential not only for agriculture export but it is now a demand of local market as well.
He said Bangladesh needs to strengthen its certification body. For capacity building, private sector, DAE, agriculture ministry, Bangladesh Agriculture Research Council and all concerned stakeholders need to act pro-actively to make GAP familiar to farmers, he added.
GAP is an internationally practiced method to ensure safe and sustainable agriculture production.
GAP is a set of principles, regulations and technical recommendations applicable to production, processing and transporting addressing human health care, environment protection and improvement of working conditions.
