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Food Safety Sustainable Agri System A Must The New Nation By
About 40.6% of the total workforce in Bangladesh is engaged in agriculture, as per data showed by Bangladesh Economic Survey 2019. According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, 46.61% of households of the country are dependent on agriculture. Besides, World Bank says, agriculture is the source of income for 87% of rural people in Bangladesh. The country s GDP growth comes mainly from 5 sectors of which agriculture is one. The contribution of agriculture to the gross domestic product (GDP) of Bangladesh is 16.6%. So Bangladesh is still a major agricultural country.
However, the country s agricultural system is largely dependent on nature. Floods, droughts, heavy rains and salinity in coastal areas have repeatedly hampered the agricultural production of Bangladesh for many years. Moreover, as a result of not using modern technology in agriculture, we have not got the expected yield in the past