Nearly 140 million
people are living in a limited area of Bangladesh. The
agriculture sector is not developed enough to produce
adequate food grains for the country and as such deficit
is met through import from the neighboring countries.
The country has become a land of ecological imbalance
due to deforestation and lack of afforestation. On the
other hand Bangladesh has tremendous possibilities of
improvement in the field of traditional and specialized
agriculture as well as in the field of afforestation.
Bangladesh Agriculture
and Forest Development Ltd. (BAFD), an unit of Bangladesh
Development Group is aiming to utilize its natural resource
of fertile land and tropical climate for economical
development of the country as well as to revert the
ecological imbalance. It has the plan to set up Medicinal
Plantation as specialized agriculture project and Oil
Palm Tree Plantation as agricultural as well as forest
development project. The Oil Palm Tree Plantation will
also contribute towards improving the condition of ecological
imbalance. Moreover, Palm Oil Production will significantly
reduce the import volume of the same. Since Oil Palm
Tree Plantation cum Palm Oil Production is a new technology
in Bangladesh, the company intends to march forward
in collaboration with experienced foreign associates
to implement its objective.
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