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people to make good decisions and take the correct and timely action. In all activities and steps of the business process, information is used and needed. The quality of information that is used could easily spell the difference between good and bad decisions, timely and delayed actions, and, ultimately, survival or failure. The following recommendations are, in one way or another, linked to the role and value of information that leads to business success: C Pursue benchmarking, competitive comparisons and best practices sharing at various levels, including departmental, company, inter-company, industry, national and international. C Sustain an information dissemination program, e.g., television documentaries, radio broadcasts, publications and extension workers. C Continue strengthening IT and telecom infrastructures, e.g., the Internet. C Encourage networking and linkage promotion, e.g., tripartite partnerships between the government, farmers/SMEs and large companies. C Broaden training curricula beyond the usual format of technical-basic management to include human resources development, networking, market research and intelligence gathering. C Exploit the use of National Quality Awards criteria (e.g., Malcolm Balridge National quality awards [MBNQA]) as a framework. - 65 -
1. BANGLADESH INTRODUCTION - 69 - Abdus Shobhan Sikder Former Deputy Secretary Ministry of Agriculture Dhaka The economy of Bangladesh is predominantly agrarian with the agriculture sector accounting for about 32 percent of GDP. Despite that fact, agribusiness development has until recently been constrained by distorted economic policies and institutional controls in Bangladesh. In the late 1980s, the increasing importance of competitive output and input markets in replacing excessive state control and regulations was recognized. In that context, the Government of Bangladesh started undertaking policy reforms in agribusiness and agriculture marketing for more efficient and cost-effective supply of agricultural inputs and services, relative improvement of agricultural resource incomes and the enhanced contribution of agriculture to economic growth. Those policy reforms included, among others, the privatization and deregulation of fertilizer marketing, liberalization of trade etc. The World Bank and other international financial institutions and bilateral donors have also renewed their emphasis on privatization and deregulation of agribusiness, and they are vigorously supporting policies that promote private entrepreneurship and market-oriented reforms for agribusiness development. These changes in Bangladesh have encouraged the development of agro-based enterprises through private sector investment in the areas of production of high-value crops, seed production, chemical and blended fertilizers, agroprocessing enterprises etc. Bangladesh now has very good prospects for the development of agribusiness enterprises. Government policies as well as donors have also taken particular interest in improving agribusiness in Bangladesh through support for technology acquisition, credit fund information on markets and technology. ROLE OF AGRICULTURE IN THE BANGLADESH ECONOMY The economy of Bangladesh is primarily dependent on agriculture. About 84 percent of the total population live in rural areas and are directly or indirectly engaged in a wide range of agricultural activities. The agriculture sector plays a very important role in the economy of the country, accounting for 31.6 percent of total GDP in 1997/98 at constant (1984/85) prices. The agriculture sector comprises crops, forestry, fisheries and livestock. Of the agricultural GDP, the crop subsector contributes 71 percent, followed by forestry and fisheries at 10 percent each and livestock at 9 percent. The sector generates 63.2 percent of total national employment, of which the crop subsector share is nearly 55 percent. In 1997/ 98, agricultural exports of primary products constituted 10.4 percent of the total exports by the country. In the past decade, the agriculture sector contributed about 3 percent per annum to the annual economic growth rate.
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Report of the APO Seminar on Develo
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FOREWORD Modern agricultural techno
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SUMMARY OF FINDINGS INTRODUCTION Th
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