PM Hasina: Food security remains protected amid international crisis
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday told the parliament that the country’s food security remains protected even amid the ongoing international crisis.
“Bangladesh has successfully faced Covid-19 pandemic. The food security remains protected in the country amid the current international crisis as well,” she said.
The premier made the remarks while replying to a question from Awami League lawmaker Md Shahiduzzaman Sarkar (Naogaon-2).
Earlier, Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhry presented the question-answer session at the beginning of the day’s business.
The prime minister said Bangladesh has already attained food autarky. “The government has been working intensively to maintain our (food) self-sufficiency,” she said.
She said the crisis has been created in the global supply chain of different commodities including foods following the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war.
“In this situation, the government has regularly been taking various steps on national and international levels to ensure food security by facing this crisis,” said Hasina.
She said Bangladesh has successfully attained the food autarchy thanks to agricultural research, extension, continuous materials support and policy support in the agriculture sector.
“Bangladesh has now become a role model on the global stage in case of food security,” she said.
She said the country’s food grains production was 328.96 lakh metric tons in 2008-09 fiscal year, which went up to 477.68 lakh metric tons in 2022-23 fiscal year.
Efforts to continue for recognition of 1971 genocide
In reply to another question from Awami League lawmaker Anwer Hossain Khan (Laxmipur-1), the prime minister said many countries demanded the recognition of genocide committed in their respective countries as International Genocide Day.
Later, the United Nations General Assembly on September 11, 2015 adopted a resolution through discussion to observe December 9 as the International Day for the Prevention of Genocide.
“Since December 9 has been observed as the International Day for the Prevention of Genocide, the proposal to observe another International Day on the same issue would not be rational,” she said.
She, however, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs and the Liberation War Museum and some members of the martyrs' families are making efforts to achieve international recognition of the genocide taken place in Bangladesh in 1971.
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