Govt set to finalize agriculture policy 2018 soon

The administration is set to conclude the national horticulture arrangement 2018 soon with a view to influencing it to time befitting following the contemporary world. 

"The nation needs to twofold its sustenance creation according to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by 2030 and that is the reason the National Agriculture Policy ought to be modernized," said Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury as the central visitor while tending to an audit workshop on the drafted national agribusiness arrangement 2018 at Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC) here today. 

The administration is firm for general advancement of the agribusiness area according to the seventh-five year design and the national farming strategy, said the priest. 

The congruity of the agrarian advancement needed to confront a mishap in different circumstances in the past since the freedom as no legislature had taken an activity to shape the national agribusiness strategy, she said. 

The Awami League government drove by Prime Minister Sheik Hasina was the principal who had detailed the national farming arrangement in 1999, said the priest, including the national agribusiness strategy was additionally reconsidered in 2013. 

Led by Senior Agriculture Secretary Mohammad Mainuddin Abdullah, the workshop was gone to by Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance Ministry Dr Abdur Razzaque and individual from the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture Ministry Abdul Mannan as the uncommon visitors. 

Matia Chowhdhury said the horticulture area is currently confronting different difficulties including the environmental change, saying the administration has established the modified national farming strategy 2018 (drafted) for guaranteeing nourishment security and changing the subsistence agribusiness into a business approach. 

So the recently detailed national horticulture approach has been incorporated research for agribusiness improvement, innovation exchange and agribusiness augmentation, horticulture fixings, cultivate automation, learning and skill advancement, farming condition and normal assets administration, particular provincial farming, specific farming, safe sustenance and agrarian ware creation, horticulture promoting, ladies strengthening, youth drive in horticulture, interest in horticulture, agribusiness cooperatives and data and correspondence innovation, the clergyman included. 

"The survey of national horticulture approach 2018 is critical as right around 50 for each penny individuals are as yet included with the division," said Dr Abdur Razzaque. 

The legislature has stressed on the national agribusiness arrangement as the administration is resolved to construct a neediness and starvation free prosperous nation envisioned by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheik Mujibur Rahman, said Abdul Mannan MP. 

BARC Executive Chairman Ikramul Haq gave the appreciated address while previous BARC boss Dr Wais Kabir exhibited the features of the drafted National Agriculture Policy 2018.