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Agriculture in Bangladesh consists mostly of subsistence
farming on small farms. Per-capita output tends to be
low. Rice, of which two or three crops can be grown each
year, is the leading food crop in all areas and accounts
for most of the cultivated area. Some 38 million metric
tons were harvested in 2003, placing Bangladesh among
the world’s leading producers of rice. High-yielding
varieties of rice are cultivated as part of a government
initiative to increase the country’s self-sufficiency in
food grains. Other cereal crops, notably wheat, have
grown in importance since the 1980s, and the area of
land under wheat cultivation continues to increase.
Pulses, an important source of protein in most
Bangladeshi diets, are also cultivated. Other crops
include various oilseeds (mainly for cooking oil),
potatoes, sweet potatoes, sugarcane, bananas, mangoes,
and pineapples.
The principal cash, or export, crop is jute (a plant
used to make burlap and twine), grown throughout the
annually flooded portions of the Ganges-Brahmaputra
delta; the amount of jute harvested in 2003 was about
801,000 metric tons. Tea, also a valuable cash crop, is
grown almost exclusively in the northeast, around Sylhet.
Cattle and buffalo are numerous, raised for dung (a
source of fuel), hides (for leather), and meat.
About
Agriculturists in Bangladesh:
Agriculturists from Bangladesh are usually those who has
graduated in Agricultural science from Bangladesh
Agricultural University or various other science and
technology universities/institutes. It is usually a 4
years graduate course and after that a 18 or 24 months
MS program with thesis is associated with that course.
There are several institutes offer BSc Ag degree. The
main university is BAU located in Mymensingh district.
There are 6 faculties currently associated in BAU and 2
national research institutes as Institute of Nuclear
Agriculture (BINA) and Bangladesh Fisheries Research
Institute (BFRI). The University is mandated to tone up
the quality and standard of higher agriculture education
and to produce first rate agriculturists, agricultural
scientists and technologists for shouldering the
responsibilities of agricultural development of the
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Aquatic
animals provide a major source of animal protein in the
Bangladeshi diet. Hilsa (a kind of herring) and prawns
are among the principal commercial species. The amount
of fish caught in 2001 was 1.7 million metric tons,
mostly consisting of freshwater varieties. Most
freshwater fish are raised in farm ponds throughout the
country. The leading commercial types of trees are wild
sundari, gewa, and teak. Bamboo is also an important
forest product.
Natural gas production is the primary mining activity in
Bangladesh. Extensive development began in the 1990s
after vast reserves were discovered both onshore and
offshore in the Bay of Bengal. Apart from natural gas
production, mining and quarrying are of negligible
importance in Bangladesh.
About
Bangladesh:
Official name: People’s Republic of Bangladesh
Republic
in South Central Asia, formerly part of India and then,
from 1947 to 1971, Pakistan. It became an Independent
nation following a Liberation War in 1971.
Language: Bangla
Currency: Taka
Capital: Dhaka
Population: 153,546,901 (July 2008
est.) Source:
The World Factbook
Area: 147,570 sq km/56,977 sq mi
About
BAU:
1.
Established: 18 August 1961
2. Location: 3 Km South of Mymensingh City & 120 Km
North of Nation's Capital City, Dhaka
3. Area: 485 Hectares
4. No of Major Academic Disciplines (Faculties): 6
- Faculty of Veterinary Science: Departments - 8
- Faculty of Agriculture: Departments - 16
- Faculty of Animal Husbandry: Departments - 5
- Faculty of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology :
Departments - 5
- Faculty of Agricultural Engineering & Technology:
Departments - 5
- Faculty of Fisheries : Departments - 4
5. Current Students Enrolment: 4296 (Male-3329,
Female-967)
6. No. of Teachers: 522 (Male-476, Female-46)
7. No. of Student Dormitories: 11 (Male-9, Female-2)
8. No. of Experimental Farms: 10
9. Central Library Collections: Books - 189853;
Periodicals - 2083 titles; Current Journals - 152 |
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