Boosting the export of farm produce in Bangladesh

Farm production, particularly for export, has been one of the worst-hit areas during the pandemic, recovery of which seems quite a bit distant. True, even before the covid-19 struck businesses and trading, Bangladesh's export of farm and horticulture produce and products was fraught with many disadvantages. Accessing the markets fulfilling compliance norms was a major problem. There were efforts on the part of the government so that exporters of farm goods could mitigate the difficulties, but things did not materialise as expected, except in some isolated cases. With the pandemic taking its toll on businesses as a whole, the moves got either mostly abandoned or halted. Experts feel that the moves taken were in the right direction, and it is high time those were put in place again to revamp exporting of farm products. One of these key moves was contract farming. The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) in an effort to meet compliance issues in overseas markets of Bangladesh's ...