Bangladesh is a densely populated country. To
meet the demand of our over populated country and to ensure food security for
all citizens; there is no alternative to increase our crop productions. It is
significant that, in the recent years our crop production is increasing and we
are now self-sufficient in food production. Our farmers are working hard and
adopting modern technologies at all stage of production levels. All salute must
go to them for their day night efforts despite of facing hurdles from natural
calamities like flood, cyclone, drought and even from the attack of pests.
Pests are an important threat to food production,
in some cases destroying as much as one quarter of annual crops. But, in order
to fight pests, farmers in Bangladesh
heavily rely on pesticides, with potentially negative implications for
agriculture, the environment and human health. On the other hand, the traders
of fruits and vegetables, at different stage, mixing poisonous chemicals as
preservative in a sense of earn more profit. The effects from over use of
pesticides and preservatives, we urban people rarely get poison free fresh vegetables
and fruits from market. Moreover, there are numbers of intermediates between farmer
to consumer level, causing the increase of sales price but squeezing the
farmers in getting proper value of their productions.
To safe the nation from the harm of chemical and pesticides, it is necessary to develop the production and marketing process. We, some organizations are working in this sector applying organic and IPM (Integrated Pest Management) method to ensure chemical and pesticides free safe agro products in Chittagong region.
Krishak Bazar is such an organization formed by all the entrepreneurs engaged in production of safe agro products to ensure availability of those safe products for the consumers in Chittagong.
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