'Stop tobacco cultivation in farmlands'
Environmentalists and development workers yesterday demanded stopping tobacco cultivation in the farmlands for increasing agricultural production.
Their demands came at a human chain jointly organised by the Poribesh Bachao Andolon (Poba) and Prottasha, an anti-drug organisation, in front of the Fine Arts Institute of Dhaka University, said a press release.
Tobacco cultivation is expanding day by day posing a threat to the country's food security. To achieve food security, the government should take immediate effective measure to stop tobacco cultivation in the farmlands across the country, they said.
Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance official Syed Mahbubul Alam said the farmers are directly affected both economically and physically due to tobacco cultivation and their farmlands are losing fertility gradually.
Tobacco cultivation should be stopped to protect the farmers, he added.
Ubinig executive director Farida Akhter said the country will face severe food crisis in near future, if tobacco cultivation could not be stopped immediately.
Poba programme officer Toufiqur Rahman Sentu, Nirapod Development Foundation chairman Ibnul Syed Rana, WBB Trust project coordinator Aminul Islam Sujon, among others, spoke at the function.
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