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Dr. Shaikh Tanveer Hossain
Friends In Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB), Bangladesh

Dr. Shaikh Tanveer Hossain
Friends In Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB), Bangladesh

Agriculture plays a very important role in populated countries like Bangladesh. Bangladesh ranks eighth in World population rank and fifth in Asia. The conventional agriculture of Bangladesh after green revolution heavily depended on chemical fertilizers and pesticides causing several problems to human health and the environment. As a result, food safety has now become a big issue. Moreover, the cost of agriculture has increased manifold with declining yield levels and growing dependence on market for purchase of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Hence the most urgent step is application of bio-products in order to ensure better and safe environment without any reduction in yield of crops. Food security is also challenging considering the climate change, land degradation and natural disasters in the highly populated countries in Asia like Bangladesh. Small farmers in Bangladesh are struggling to compete with today’s liberalized and globalised market and do not get fair price of their product. Organic agriculture is considered to be a suitable agricultural production area to ensure harmonization between human welfare and sustainable development. It may be noted that organic issues are yet to be highlighted as an important agenda in the research institutions and by the policy makers. Organic products have good potential for export, the local market can also be important since many consumers are interested with food quality and food safety and eager to purchase with premium price with proper certification and labeling. To develop the organic agricultural sector in Bangladesh, government should develop appropriate policies, product standardization and support programs.

  Organic farming, Populated area, Bangladesh
  
  
  
  Crop-Soil-Water Management
  Organic fertilizer

This paper will discuss the importance of organic agriculture in populated countries with few examples, overall opportunities and limitations of Bangladesh.
 

World populated countries and food security: At present China is the most populated country followed by India. Among the top ten populated countries in the world, six belongs to Asia i.e. China (rank 1), India (rank 2), Indonesia (rank 4), Pakistan (rank 6), Bangladesh (rank 8) and Japan is in rank 10 position. In the populated countries basic agricultural challenges are identified as food security, productivity, climate change & vulnerability and primary source of livelihood. It was observed that Asian populated countries Global Food Security Index (GFSI) is comparatively lower than that of USA (GSFI 89.5, rank 1) and European countries. The other top populated Asian countries’ are Indonesia GFSI, 46.8, 64 position, Pakistan GFSI 38.5, 75 position and Bangladesh GFSI 34.6, 81 position. Among the Asian countries first and second position are Japan (GFSI 80.7, 16 positions) and South Korea (GFSI 77.8, 21 positions). In Asian countries only seven percent of the world’s organic agricultural land is used. In the largest domestic markets for organic foods, only one Asian country Japan occupied 8th position. The largest number of organic producers lists only India is held the position number one in the top ten countries. 89% of Asian countries organic agricultural land is below 1% (organic.net. 2012). Considering the above facts, the organic production of Asia is not successful like USA and European states. Agriculture in Asia is characterized by small holders of farmland having average size of less than 2 hectares (80% of total farms). The agricultural production of these small farms is presently meeting the food need of one-third of total world population. Asian smallholders are facing several challenges arising from a range of economic, demographic, structural, technological and institutional factors including industrialization and urbanization. Shrinking size of farms, rural urban migration, environmental degradation, evolution and adoption of genetically modified crops, climate change and its impact may emerge as a future threat for Asian countries. Bangladesh food security related to population: Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life (World Food Summit – 1996). Food security is given the topmost priority in Bangladesh. Side by side with domestic food production, greater importance is given to ensure access to adequate and safe food for all people to maintain an active and healthy life. Agriculture sector contributes about 21% of total GDP in Bangladesh, out of which crop sector shares 73%, fisheries 10%, livestock 10% and forestry 7%. Bangladesh has made a steady progress in the expansion of food production. Because of the increasing population pressure there has been an extensive use of land to meet the growing demand for food. In Bangladesh area of cultivable lands were 8.85, 8.18, 7.746, 8.44 and 9.098 m ha in 1990, 1995, 2000, 2006 and 2010 respectively. Food production during 1990, 2006 and 2010 were 14.55, 24.569 and 26.59 mMT against the requirements of 16.28, 23.029 and 24.52 mMT respectively (1) As per Global Food Security Index, Bangladesh position is lowest in the South Asian countries. 26% people are facing malnutrition and per day 290 cal is taken (where in rich country 1200 cal/per person/ per day. Decreasing arable land in Bangladesh, together with increasing population and changing climatic conditions, make this challenge more acute. Most of the agriculture production is carried out on small pieces of lands. Bangladesh's population is increasing at a rate of two million every year. Beside that, in order to feed the ever increasing population, the government of Bangladesh emphasized cereal crops production with the introduction of high-yielding varieties of rice and wheat since independence. In the last two decades, frequent floods, droughts and cyclones have caused extensive economic damage and have impaired livelihoods in Bangladesh. Adapting to and mitigating the effects of climate change is a key to sustainable development and food security issue in Bangladesh. Overall, agricultural GDP in Bangladesh is projected to be 3.1 per cent less each year as a result of climate change. Bangladesh is a disaster-prone country, and, is often at the mercy of natural calamities.

  https://orgprints.org/29203/
  https://orgprints.org/29203/
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Ensuring food security for the huge population for sustained organic agricultural production within the existing scenario of declining soil fertility, decreasing yields, increased and imbalanced use of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides has become a serious challenge for Bangladesh. The need for policymakers to design effective, targeted outreach programs that will address pesticide risk, safe handling, and protection. Despite impressive gains in increasing domestic food grain production, problem of food and nutrition security remains. Investment in sustainable organic practices in agriculture production and small scale farmers in a new green revolution that gives high priority to small-scale food production based on ecologically viable systems are very important.  The government should immediately put emphasis on organic agriculture considering the effects of light, soil nutrients and different dimensions of soil utilization to ensure the country's food security. Mere production cannot solve the problems; rather would create multidimensional irregularities and thus making people more dependent upon so-called high input-based technology.  Considering the scarcity of land and the continued growth of population, there is no alternative but to continue intensifying agricultural production in Bangladesh. Research is urgently needed to determine the magnitude and exact nature of problems including threats to the health of farmers and their families, of pollution of water-bodies, and of pesticide residues on food and to develop appropriate solutions. To ensure food security and food safety, Bangladesh has to pay keen attention to technology generation, uphold soil health, irrigation and water management activities, post-harvest techniques and marketing system. Organic farming has the potential to expand in Bangladesh by identifying the suitable niches in different locations. Research and development activities need to strengthened along with promotion of domestic and export marketing of high value organic agro-commodities. Government should take effective initiative through institutional approach to introduce organic farming in Bangladesh.
 
 

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