Bangladesh vs Russia

[Homo Sapiens]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1572078385588756480

 

[Abu Shaleh Rumi]

Im attracted to Russian farmlands but Russia is a racist and unstable country...

 

[Bilal9]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1572078385588756480

Waaaa ! Almost unbelievable - huh?

When he talks about warm conditions and labor supply, he ain't $hittin'...

When you can grow vegetables and rice on water, then the sky's the limit of where Bangladesh can go. Going underwater is no longer a threat.....

 

[bluesky]

Waaaa ! Almost unbelievable - huh?

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When he talks about warm conditions and labor supply, he ain't $hittin'...

When you can grow vegetables and rice on water, then the sky's the limit of where Bangladesh can go. Going underwater is no longer a threat.....


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Even with all your bright pictures, BD regularly imports onions, rice, Bhutta, and wheat from foreign countries.

One reason BD cannot strongly protest against the Burmese onslaught is that BD has already contracted MM for many Lakh of tons of rice from that country.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

Even with all your bright pictures, BD regularly imports onions, rice, Bhutta, and wheat from foreign countries.

One reason BD cannot strongly protest against the Burmese onslaught is that BD has already contracted MM for many Lakh of tons of rice from that country.

It is impossible to become self sufficient in all agricultural products for a small country like Bangladesh. Even United States imports a lot of agricultural products from Latin America and Europe. They also exports a lot. Russia export a lot grain in world market, yet import huge amount of red meat, poultry, vegetables, fruits and lots of other food stuffs.

Important point is, whether agricultural trade balance is positive or negative for a country. Bangladesh import 10 billion Dollar worth of agri product but export just 1.2 billion Dollar worth of it. What we have to strive is to make this balance positive by adding value to agricultural export and grow more what we good at. not a futile attempt of producing all of them.

 

[bluesky]

It is impossible to become self sufficient in all agricultural products for a small country like Bangladesh. Even United States imports a lot of agricultural products from Latin America and Europe. They also exports a lot. Russia export a lot grain in world market, yet import huge amount of red meat, poultry, vegetables, fruits and lots of other food stuffs.

Important point is, whether agricultural trade balance is positive or negative for a country. Bangladesh import 10 billion Dollar worth of agri product but export just 1.2 billion Dollar worth of it. What we have to strive is to make this balance positive by adding value to agricultural export and grow more what we good at. not a futile attempt of producing all of them.

BD has a large agricultural land about 3 times larger than Japan. BD produces two crops a year and Japan produces one crop. Yet, BD has to import staple foods. In the case of BD, the yield is very low.

We can see India produces surplus staple food and exports much of it to BD as well.

BD is still doing subsistence farming and India has adopted modern efficient cultivation whereby people do not grow rice in an area that is good for producing wheat.

India also produces its farm machines that help to raise the yield of staple food. BD just cannot do it and even import foods from Burma.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

We can see India produces surplus staple food and exports much of it to BD as well. BD is still doing subsistence farming and India has adopted modern cultivation whereby people do not grow rice in an area that is good for producing wheat.

India also produces its farm machines that help to raise the yield of staple food. BD just cannot do it and even import foods from Burma.

India's per capita food production is lower than Bangladesh, yet they manage to export because the vast hinterland of India is one of the hungriest place in the world comparable to Sahelian Africa. BIMARU states account of half of Indian population and rural caste ridden population there have abysmal health and nutrition outcome. China produce twice the amount of food grain of India for the same number of population( 1.4 billion each), yet China is not self-sufficient and import a lot of grain and other food stuff. Tell me how on earth 300 million Ton grain harvest of India is adequate for feeding 1.4 billion people with tens of million ton spare to export? Bangladesh produce more than 40 million ton, yet import another 10 million ton wheat, maize and rice to overcome the shortfall. India can not be any bench mark for any country in the world when it comes to agricultural production and food security.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/global-hunger-index-ranks-india-at-101-out-of-116-countries/article36998777.ece

We need agricultural collaboration with The Netherlands. Bangladesh and The Netherlands are a lot similar in agricultural resources and potentials.

 

[bluesky]

India's per capita food production is lower than Bangladesh, yet they manage to export because the vast hinterland of India is one of the hungriest place in the world comparable to Sahelian Africa. BIMARU states account of half of Indian population and rural caste ridden population there have abysmal health and nutrition outcome. China produce twice the amount of food grain of India for the same number of population( 1.4 billion each), yet China is not self-sufficient and import a lot of grain and other food stuff. Tell me how on earth 300 million Ton grain harvest of India is adequate for feeding 1.4 billion people with tens of million ton spare to export? Bangladesh produce more than 40 million ton, yet import another 10 million ton wheat, maize and rice to overcome the shortfall. India can not be any bench mark for any country in the world when it comes to agricultural production and food security.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/global-hunger-index-ranks-india-at-101-out-of-116-countries/article36998777.ece

We need agricultural collaboration with The Netherlands. Bangladesh and The Netherlands are a lot similar in agricultural resources and potentials.

I think you are going after too many excuses. The reality is with about 21 million acres of arable land BD has failed to produce enough staple foods.

Compare this area with farmland in other countries. You will see even with two crops a year BD is unable to produce enough food.

It means the yield is very low.

 

[mb444]

I think you are going after too many excuses. The reality is with about 21 million acres of arable land BD has failed to produce enough staple foods.

Compare this area with farmland in other countries. You will see even with two crops a year BD is unable to produce enough food.

It means the yield is very low.

Still doing better than you indian. Stop diverting thread with your india centric nonsense. Want to talk about your country go do it in your subforum. No one here gives a damn about india.

 

[Skull and Bones]

Bengal is one of the most fertile land in this planet. Farming mechanization can increase its output even more.

 

[Bilal9]

BD has a large agricultural land about 3 times larger than Japan. BD produces two crops a year and Japan produces one crop. Yet, BD has to import staple foods. In the case of BD, the yield is very low.

We can see India produces surplus staple food and exports much of it to BD as well. BD is still doing subsistence farming and India has adopted modern cultivation whereby people do not grow rice in an area that is good for producing wheat.

India also produces its farm machines that help to raise the yield of staple food. BD just cannot do it and even import foods from Burma.

@bluesky bhai the problem in Bangladesh is that workers are leaving agricultural work in spades to come work in urbanized areas which pays way more money. The rate of urbanization in the last decade has been quiet high because of increased opportunities in the non-farm industrial sector and people leaving the countryside to work in EPZ's etc.

Rate of urbanization in Bangladesh now is higher than theirs in India.

Similarly, because of paucity of workers, the rate of farm mechanization adoption has increased dramatically. Adoption of tillers, harvesters and thresher machines are at an all time high.

Embracing agricultural mechanisation for achieving SDGs

The sustainable development goals (SDGs) related to agriculture aim at reducing poverty and hunger to zero level, achieving decent work and inclusive growth, responsible consumption and production, and addressing climate action. One of the strategies is to double agricultural production per acre by

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It is only a question of time before the farm sector in Bangladesh becomes more mechanized than other countries including India.

A recent study on “Mechanization for Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in SAARC Region” and the UN FAO predicted that percentage of labor force employed in on-farm agricultural activities would reduce from 43% to 36% by next year and to 20% by 2030 — posing a great challenge to Bangladesh agriculture to produce more grains for increasing population.

Big time mechanization in farmers’ rescue

Farm labour force to halve in 10 years, government decides to give more subsidies on agro machinery and forms committee to expedite mechanization program

archive.dhakatribune.com

Adoption of power tillers in Bangladesh for tilling (even for rentals) is quite high.

Which explains why Bangladesh will become more an importer of food than say producer. Producing food may not be as profitable in terms of value-addition as working in an EPZ to add value is.

In fact the loss of market of Onions and Tomatoes in Bangladesh can have devastating effect in India on farm prices for these items.

Sometimes traders in India work with their govt. to manipulate this market. But after Bangladesh stopped importing onions from India, this trick failed.

Here - see the prices of Tomatoes in India crashed - while they could be canned to sell elsewhere. Or exported to Bangladesh.

Irked By Low Prices, Dharampuri Farmers Dump Tonne Of Tomatoes On Roadside

The Palacode market is one of the key markets in the district where tomatoes are procured wholesale. The mood in the market turned bleak after selling price of a crate of tomatoes (25 kg) declined to...

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[Bilal9]

Even with all your bright pictures, BD regularly imports onions, rice, Bhutta, and wheat from foreign countries.

One reason BD cannot strongly protest against the Burmese onslaught is that BD has already contracted MM for many Lakh of tons of rice from that country.

I am not trying to paint any bright picture, Bangladesh will always remain a net food importer.

PRODUCING food is low tech low-return industry.

There is no profit in it compared to say, PRODUCING textile items.

Producing food is only profitable when you apply massive scale mechanization like the USA and EU does. That is why Japan imports US agri items. This is fact.

Here is a medium sized US tractor, they are air conditioned, run by GPS and can till hundreds of hectares in a single day. Nothing globally can match this sort of agri-productivity.

 

[Abu Shaleh Rumi]

Bengal is one of the most fertile land in this planet. Farming mechanization can increase its output even more.

For that we need educated farmers. Almost all of our farmers are barely literate!

 

[Bilal9]

For that we need educated farmers. Almost all of our farmers are barely literate!

Corporate farming is starting at a small scale but rapidly expanding. This includes vertical climate controlled bio-tech vegetable farms. These are quite space efficient.

 

[bluesky]

@bluesky bhai the problem in Bangladesh is that workers are leaving agricultural work in spades to come work in urbanized areas which pays way more money. The rate of urbanization in the last decade has been quiet high because of increased opportunities in the non-farm industrial sector and people leaving the countryside to work in EPZ's etc.

Rate of urbanization in Bangladesh now is higher than theirs in India.

Similarly, because of paucity of workers, the rate of farm mechanization adoption has increased dramatically. Adoption of tillers, harvesters and thresher machines are at an all time high.

Embracing agricultural mechanisation for achieving SDGs

The sustainable development goals (SDGs) related to agriculture aim at reducing poverty and hunger to zero level, achieving decent work and inclusive growth, responsible consumption and production, and addressing climate action. One of the strategies is to double agricultural production per acre by

www.thefinancialexpress.com.bd

View attachment 881320

It is only a question of time before the farm sector in Bangladesh becomes more mechanized than other countries including India.

A recent study on “Mechanization for Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in SAARC Region” and the UN FAO predicted that percentage of labor force employed in on-farm agricultural activities would reduce from 43% to 36% by next year and to 20% by 2030 — posing a great challenge to Bangladesh agriculture to produce more grains for increasing population.

Big time mechanization in farmers’ rescue

Farm labour force to halve in 10 years, government decides to give more subsidies on agro machinery and forms committee to expedite mechanization program

archive.dhakatribune.com

Adoption of power tillers in Bangladesh for tilling (even for rentals) is quite high.

Which explains why Bangladesh will become more an importer of food than say producer. Producing food may not be as profitable in terms of value-addition as working in an EPZ to add value is.

In fact the loss of market of Onions and Tomatoes in Bangladesh can have devastating effect in India on farm prices for these items.

Sometimes traders in India work with their govt. to manipulate this market. But after Bangladesh stopped importing onions from India, this trick failed.

Here - see the prices of Tomatoes in India crashed - while they could be canned to sell elsewhere. Or exported to Bangladesh.

Irked By Low Prices, Dharampuri Farmers Dump Tonne Of Tomatoes On Roadside

The Palacode market is one of the key markets in the district where tomatoes are procured wholesale. The mood in the market turned bleak after selling price of a crate of tomatoes (25 kg) declined to...

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I have little time to read through your excuses. A few videos do not prove that BD agriculture is mechanized. I have first-hand knowledge of how mechanized it is.

Please do not send all those fairy pictures to show people from other countries to see how robust is BD agriculture. These are all meaningless pictures.

Please visit BD and go out to non-Dhaka areas to know the reality. Farm machines are not built in BD. So, almost all are imported and this cannot enhance agricultural production.

People in any country go out of farm villages because people without much land earn low, they go out to survive in garments industries. But, you cannot cite it as a reason that BD farms are mechanized like it is in Taiwan.

Earnings are low in villages because farm products are sold cheaply. Why cheap? It is because the buyers living in the towns have little purchasing power. Why so? It is because town people are underemployed or non-productive. So, they do not earn much.

It is all going in a bad cycle. Many countries got out of this cycle by quick industrialization that gave handsome income to the urban people. However, I have not found one guy who understands the importance of industrialization in a country infested with 180 million people.

But, all talk big, big and big, and come with big pictures.