Focus on efficient use of land to ensure food security
Land Minister Rezaul Karim Hira yesterday stressed the need for efficient use of land to ensure food security for the country.
“Our population is gradually rising, but the area of land is not increasing rather the farmland is on the decline,” said Hira.
As a result, it would be difficult to feed the growing number of population without efficient use of land, he said, adding that the use of per capita land would come down to 3.75 decimal or 15 percent of the current size in the next 50 years.
According to government documents and individual researchers, over 150 million people live in around 14 million hectares of land.
Per capita land is less than 25 decimal and out of which, only 15 decimal is farm land.
Hira was speaking at a knowledge sharing event jointly organised by Concern Universal-Bangladesh in association with Intercooperation and Dhaka Ahsania Mission at LGED Bhaban in Dhaka.
They organised the event to share the lessons learned from the project on 'Reduction of Food Insecurity for Poor and Extreme Poor Households'.
A total of 10,000 families of five upazilas in Jamalpur district have been brought under the project, which will end this month.
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