The South Asian nations are set to activate the SAARC food bank immediately after the summit meeting to help the member-countries tackle exigent situations after the foreign secretaries reached a consensus on the first day of their two-day meeting here on Tuesday. They agreed to help each other for increasing agricultural production by providing each other technological support as well as making the distribution mechanisms of food-grains more effective. Foreign secretary Touhid Hossain, while briefing reporters at Hotel Trans Asia, said that the 35th meeting of SAARC's standing committee, held at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, had agreed to make their recommendations for signing a deal on SAARC Development Fund (SDF), and set up a coordination board for the establishment of the SAARC Regional Standardization Organisation (SARSO). Meanwhile, at a separate briefing at the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies, Prasad Kariyawasam, the spokesperson of the Sri Lankan foreign ministry, said that the issue of food security would get special focus in the Colombo Declaration. The deals will be signed at the summit meeting when the top leaders meet in Colombo on August 2-3. Touhid said that their recommendations on various issues would get the final nod in the meeting of the council of ministers on July 31 and August 1. Touhid, responding to a query on enhancement of trade, said,