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Tasfin Aziz
Urban and Rural Planning Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh
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Ciudad: Khulna
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ROLE OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN AGRICULTURAL SECTOR TO ENSURE SUSTAINABLE RICE PRODUCTION AND FOOD SECURITY
Tasfin Aziz
Under graduate student(4th year level student), Urban and Rural Planning Discipline, Khulna University-9208
ABSTRACT
Uniquely for a country with a vulnerable ecology, Bangladesh has established a creditable record of sustained economic growth (6% annually). Bangladesh is 'on track' to meet most of the MDG targets. Those which may not be reached include income poverty reduction and maternal and under-five mortality. Over 70 million people in Bangladesh are classified as income poor with 20% of the population in the poorest category. Three-quarters of the country's population and 85% of the poor live and earn their livelihood in the rural areas. The vast majority of these are simultaneously engaged in crop production, especially rice production. The agricultural sector is gradually changing from a subsistence production system towards rice cropping, whereby a substantial part of the produce is marketed. Agriculture generates two-thirds of total employment, contributes 25% of GDP, 25% of total export earnings and provides food security for the increasing population. The following sectors contribute to the agricultural Gross National Product (GNP): crops-71%, forestry- 10%, fisheries 10%, and livestock-9%. MDG attainment will require that all routes out of poverty must be pursued – economic growth, continued NGO contributions, increased involvement of the private sector, community action and improved governance and state service delivery – with a strong focus on the food security issue and the sustainable rice production. Agro-based technological development supposed to be the way of economic regenerator and an acting factor to achieve the sustainability on increasing rate of rice production and food security issue.
KEY WORDS: Agro-technology, Sustainable rice production, Food security
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