Eggs and green chillies
Japan, is the second biggest economy in the world. The Japanese are one of the highest per capita income group people. If some one believes that the Japanese government cannot import most tasty and protein rich beef and supply to the Japanese, no one will believe it. I have never been to Japan but I hear that a kilogram of fresh beef in Japan in the present market costs $500.00. Japanese cattle farmers reportedly raise cattle with lot of expenses and care because they get handsome return. Even though price is very high the Japanese do not mind and do not create pressure on their government to bring them cheap beef from abroad. This prove their patriotism.
An egg is an important protein rich food item.
In Bangladesh how many can afford an egg every day even if it is cheap? I believe not more than 10% or so. Recently, the price of eggs has gone up and the Bangladesh government immediately, without giving any second thought, imported few crores of eggs from neighbouring India worth some crores of taka. Our poor poultry owners were getting a few bucks which could compensate for their losses due to the recent bird flue, the government has struck them from recovering from that effect.
Why was the government in such hurry, while many other important requirements are not being met so promptly.
Instead of importing few eggs in exchange of the people's hard earned foreign exchange, it could have provided the local growers this amount as interest free loans, the farmers would have been encouraged and within a few months' time, the crisis of eggs would have been eased and hard earned foreign exchange would have been saved. The government's wrong decision only caused loss to the state with no gain.
In fact, this is our mindset. We love other's products more than our own. We don't mind harming our state interest for pleasure of a few. I request my fellow countrymen, please show patriotism, grow your own products and avoid imported ones as do the Japanese. If Japanese people want, the Japan government can flood the country with imported fresh meat from Australia,
Europe, America, India and many other countries but they do not want that. That's the difference between the Japanese and us.
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