Small and marginal farmers need govt support to ensure food security
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09/05/2008
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New Age (Bangladesh)
Small and marginal farmers need govt support to ensure food security The country needs to protect the small and marginal farmers and entrepreneurs for sustainable growth of agribusiness by providing them with financial and infrastructural support in order to attain food security in the future, said speakers at a seminar on Thursday. The government must provide credit, policy, infrastructure and investment support for accelerating the growth of agribusiness as annually the country incurs a post-harvest loss of some 30-35 per cent due to lack of proper infrastructural facilities, they said while addressing the seminar on