Bangladesh Country Investment Plan - Feed the Future

4. Supply & sustainable use of Inputs, land, etc
• Ensure availability of inputs- seeds and fertilizers
• Protection of agricultural land and protection of tenant
right
• Provide easy loan to the farmers
• Promote community based agriculture
• Support insurance system for crop, livestock and fishery
• Increase women’s access to land, water and other
resources
• Increase poor peoples’ access to land, water, technology
and inputs
• Seed Quality testing facilities be made locally available
• Skill training for seedbed management for good seedling
raising
• Increase supply of quality seeds through BADC
reducing reliance on private sector
• Ensure supply of quality seed through private seed
dealers
• Quality seed of hybrid rice and other hybrid crops
should be made available locally through BADC or
honest traders
• Law to protect agricultural land from selling for other
purposes
• Land use planning to protect agricultural land loss
• Local coordination among different departments-
BWDB, AG, Food
• Law to stop leasing Govt. Khash land for enabling
brood continuation/survival
• Enhance farmers’ cooperative/united efforts/ICM club
in farming under local DAE supervision
• Agricultural loan including those for crops, Livestock
and fishery should be made available through Krishi
Bank at low interest/interest free
5. Livestock development
• Provide feed subsidy
• Dissemination of mature technology of BLRI
• Reduce high price of Day old chicks
• Support for fair price of livestock products (resolve
marketing problem of livestock product)
• Arranging electricity supply for poultry raising
• Good brood/chicks for poultry and disease free fish
brood/seed
• Making available of quality poultry feeds
• Skill training of poultry farmers on feed, nutrition, and
disease management
• Veterinary services including de-worming should be
made available through Government.
6. Fishery development
• Shrimp policy is needed
• Zoning for bagda shrimp
• Excavation and conservation of Jalmahal and baor for
fisheries
• Community based fisheries development
• Subsidy of fish feed needed
• Diversification in coastal aquaculture- Crab, mussels,
sea weeds, etc.
• Making available of quality fish feeds
• Develop and promote technology for integrated use of
Embankment areas for fish
• Improved hatchery should be established locally
7. Marginal farmers
• Support for credit facilities and institutional capacity
building, inputs and technology
• Provide capital to enable them buying pure seed,
fertilizer in time
• Tenant farmers should be given interest free loan and
crop insurance should be introduced
• Agricultural loan including those for crops, Livestock
and fishery should be made available through Krishi
Bank at low interest/interest free without Security to
marginal farmers
Updated Bangladesh Country Investment Plan: A Road Map Towards investing in Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition
2 June 2011
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