This year, the government has set its target to coverage 52,61300 hectares of agricultural land for Aman production, while the last year’s achievement was 52, 13160 hectares. If major natural calamities will not hit in the upcoming days, we will get a very good number of rice production, he added. Regarding the latest flood in vast areas of Ganges basin in Bangladesh, the DG said that, “The farmers are used to face such kind of flood and they also prepared themselves thereby”. Bangladesh produces around 34.7 million tons of rice against the demand of annual 32.4 million tons. Boro is the largest paddy in terms of production as Bangladesh usually produces around 19.5 million tons while the second largest paddy- Aman production is around 13 million tons annually.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 03, 2016 19:18 UTC