2024-06-11 05:22:43
Minister of Agriculture Dr. Md. Abdus Shahid stated that the manufacturing of a number of crops, together with mangoes, has decreased as a result of warmth wave this 12 months. Due to this fact, with the goal of accelerating agricultural manufacturing, the farmers can be provided with fertilizers, seeds, pesticides and all different agricultural supplies in due time.
The minister stated this stuff on the opening ceremony of the mango export program on the central packing home in Shyampur of the capital on Monday (June 10).
The minister stated that Bangladeshi mangoes have a very good fame and demand in varied international locations. If provided to mainstream supermarkets in developed international locations from Bangladesh, the export quantity of mangoes will enhance considerably and farmers will profit extra.
He stated, mango export may be very more likely to enhance international earnings. Agriculture-friendly The current authorities is implementing varied measures aimed toward incomes important quantity of international alternate by way of the export of mangoes.
Addressing the mango exporters, the minister stated that the central packing home at Shyampur has been modernized and strengthened to extend mango exports. Different hurdles are being labored on.
It was knowledgeable within the occasion that though the export of mangoes was formally inaugurated as we speak, for the reason that final week of Might, round 189 metric tons of Gopalbhog and Himsagar mangoes have been exported to fifteen international locations. Right now, 25 metric tons of mangoes can be exported to England, Germany, Italy and France in 14 consignments.
This 12 months, the Ministry of Agriculture has set a goal of exporting 3 thousand 100 metric tons of exportable mangoes of Gopalbhog, Himsagar, Amrapali, Fazli, Surma Fazli, Bari-4 varieties to about 38 international locations. In 2023, 3 thousand 92 metric tons of mangoes had been exported to 38 international locations.
Dhaka-4 Constituency Member of Parliament spoke as a particular visitor. Md. Awlad Hossain. Director Normal of Agriculture Extension Division Badal Chandra Biswas, Director of Exportable Mango Manufacturing Mission Mohammad Arifur Rahman and others additionally spoke.