Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque has said he is confident that the current scheme of incentives will be enough to help the agriculture sector get back on its fee, as long as there is not another bout of flooding to come this year. With the worst flood in over two decades piling itself on top of the local outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is no exaggeration at present to say that some sectors of the Bangladesh economy are in need of serious emergency care. None of the worst-hit sectors provides as significant a chunk of our population with their livelihoods (even as its share in total output keeps dwindling with the economy modernizing) nor exercises a greater, more direct influence on the national psyche as agriculture. A June study by the Institute of Governance and Development Studies at BRAC University stated: “Social distancing and lockdown measures to reduce the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak is having a negative impact on the agriculture sector of Bangladesh.”
Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque has said he is confident that the current scheme of incentives will be enough to help the agriculture sector get back on its fee, as long as there is not another bout of flooding to come this year. With the worst flood in over two decades piling itself on top of the local outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is no exaggeration at present to say that some sectors of the Bangladesh economy are in need of serious emergency care. None of the worst-hit sectors provides as significant a chunk of our population with their livelihoods (even as its share in total output keeps dwindling with the economy modernizing) nor exercises a greater, more direct influence on the national psyche as agriculture. A June study by the Institute of Governance and Development Studies at BRAC University stated: “Social distancing and lockdown measures to reduce the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak is having a negative impact on the agriculture sector of Bangladesh.”
