Senior Reporter / Thelegalvoice24.com :
DHAKA, Dec 19, 2022 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today laid emphasis on the preservation of arable land for food production as the country has already lost a huge quantity of good quality and fertile land for unplanned industrialisation.
“A huge quantity of fertile arable land has been lost due to unplanned industrialisation, urbanisation and housing as the previous governments (before our) didn’t concentrate on it. We don’t want to lose such land anymore and that is why we’ve taken strict measures to preserve it,” she said.
The Premier said this while speaking at the ceremony of the 25th University Day of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU) and inaugurating the Technology Exhibition.
The programme was held at the Begum Sufia Kamal Auditorium while the Prime Minister joined it virtually from her official residence Ganabhaban.
Mentioning that geographically Bangladesh is a very small country but it has huge number of population, she said “So, we have to protect the existing arable land to secure the food production of this vast population.”
In this regard, she said the government has been setting up 100 special economic zones across the country where anyone can establish industry.
“No arable land, which is being used for produce three types of crops round the year, can be utilised for industrialisation,” she said, adding that “if anyone set up industry on such type of land, they would not get any facility (from government) and we are taking this measure to this end.”
Liberation War Affairs Minister A K M Mozammel Huq, MP, Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni, MP, and Deputy Minister for Education Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury, MP, and BSMRAU Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Md Giashuddin Miah also spoke.
A documentary on the University was also screened at the programme.
BSMRAU is a government-financed 13th public university of Bangladesh. It is located at Salna, Gazipur. It was established in 1998 as a public university with an act promulgated by the government of Bangladesh.
