Agriculture of haor areas needs reform
Speakers tell discussion
A holistic reform of agriculture in haor areas is needed to ensure food security and build a hunger-free country, said speakers at a discussion yesterday.
Pointing towards lack of research and development initiatives there, they said haor areas are full of natural resources but those remain seriously neglected, says a press release.
The discussion was organised by some non-government organisations including Nagorik Shanghati, CSRL and IDEA at Dhaka Reporters Unity in the city.
Haor areas present in some eastern and northeastern districts including Kishoreganj, Netrokona and Sunamganj, have large farmlands but remain flooded most of the year.
Pointing towards natural calamities there, speakers said farmers could not harvest crops for various natural disasters in five out of ten years.
Sunamganj-4 lawmaker Matiur Rahman, Netrokona-4 lawmaker Rokeya Momin, former National Press Club president Hasan Shahriar, agriculturist Dr M Gul Hossain and Prof Ashrafuzzaman Selim of Bangladesh Agriculture University also spoke at the discussion.
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