India will give quota on import of seven daily commodities

[bluesky]

দিল্লি থেকে ফিরে বাণিজ্যমন্ত্রী

সাত নিত্যপণ্য আমদানিতে কোটা দেবে ভারত​

Tipu Munshi

India will give quota on import of seven daily commodities
Samakal reporter

Published: 28 December 22. 00:00. Print version

India has agreed to give an annual quota to Bangladesh for the import of these seven essential commodities: rice, wheat, sugar, onion, garlic, ginger, and pulses. Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi gave this information in a press conference at the Secretariat on Tuesday after his visit to India.

On December 22 and 23, at the Bangladesh-India trade ministerial meeting in New Delhi, Bangladesh demanded a separate quota for the import of these products due to the uncertainty of the supply of food products. Bangladesh Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi and India's Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal led the delegation of their respective countries in the meeting.

The Commerce Minister said that due to Corona and the Russia-Ukraine war, India has been requested a certain amount of annual quota facility on the import of seven essential food items. India has said that Bangladesh does not import the quantity of products from India as per the proposed quota for some products. Therefore, the matter will be discussed and finalized within the next one and a half to two months.

He said we had a problem earlier because India stopped exporting onion and wheat. It was also discussed that India should not stop suddenly. India should give notice at least one month before stopping the export of a product. The government of India has assured to look positively at these proposals.

According to the sources of the Ministry of Commerce, Bangladesh has asked for a quota of 4.5 million tons of wheat, 2 million tons of rice, 7 million tons of onions, 1.5 million tons of sugar, 1.25 million tons of ginger, 30 thousand tons of lentils and 10 thousand tons of garlic every year.

The Minister of Commerce said that the bilateral meeting discussed the initiation of negotiations with the aim of signing the proposed Bangladesh-India Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (SEPA).

Apart from this, issues such as mutual cooperation, ease of trade by removing tariff and non-tariff barriers, and re-opening of border huts have been discussed in various bilateral and regional forums. Initiatives have already been taken to reopen the border huts. India has been requested to withdraw the anti-dumping duty imposed on Bangladeshi jute products since 2017.

The commerce minister also said that there was a discussion on whether the two countries will import and export in their own currencies. In this regard, the Ministry of Finance, Bangladesh Bank, and other stakeholders need advice. India has started trade with Russia and Iran in this process.

He said that India had a demand for a long-term visas for Bangladeshi businessmen. This has been discussed. Prime Minister encouraged the import of high-yielding rubber clones from India. Because the rubber of our country is not very good.

He said it has been proposed to form a forum with chief executives (CEOs) of private companies of the two countries. This forum can be formed with the CEOs of 10 Bangladeshi and 10 Indian business organizations. The forum will advise the governments of the two countries on various commercial issues.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

According to the sources of the Ministry of Commerce, Bangladesh has asked for a quota of 4.5 million tons of wheat, 2 million tons of rice, 7 million tons of onions, 1.5 million tons of sugar, 1.25 million tons of ginger, 30 thousand tons of lentils and 10 thousand tons of garlic every year.

You should have posted original Bangla version of this post and share link or at least checked and corrected your google translation before posting. You are misleading readers with this type of wrong google translation. Our entire demand of onion is around 3 million tons, so how the commerce minister can ask import quota of 7 million tons! Same mistake also for ginger, 1.25 million tons is much more than our total consumption. I had to search google to find the original source of this above lines and found this in Samakal online news.

বাণিজ্য মন্ত্রণালয় সূত্রে জানা গেছে, প্রতিবছর ৪৫ লাখ টন গম, ২০ লাখ টন চাল, ৭ লাখ টন পেঁয়াজ, ১৫ লাখ টন চিনি, ১ দশমিক ২৫ লাখ টন আদা, ৩০ হাজার টন মসুর ডাল ও ১০ হাজার টন রসুনের কোটা চেয়েছে বাংলাদেশ।

https://samakal.com/economics/article/2212148445/

It should be 0.7 million ton onions and 0.125 million tons ginger.

 

[BananaRepublicUK]

You should have post original Bangla version of this post and share link or at least check and correct your google translation before posting. You are misleading readers with this type of wrong google translation. Our entire demand of onion is around 3 million tons, so how the commerce minister can ask import quota of 7 million tons! Same mistake also for ginger, 1.25 million tons is much more than our total consumption. I had to search google to find the original source of this above lines and found this in Samakal online news.

বাণিজ্য মন্ত্রণালয় সূত্রে জানা গেছে, প্রতিবছর ৪৫ লাখ টন গম, ২০ লাখ টন চাল, ৭ লাখ টন পেঁয়াজ, ১৫ লাখ টন চিনি, ১ দশমিক ২৫ লাখ টন আদা, ৩০ হাজার টন মসুর ডাল ও ১০ হাজার টন রসুনের কোটা চেয়েছে বাংলাদেশ।

https://samakal.com/economics/article/2212148445/

It should be 0.7 million ton onions and 0.125 million tons ginger.

Mistri bhai thinks his lack of English can be compensated by Google translate

No wonder he talks shit!

 

[bluesky]

According to the sources of the Ministry of Commerce, Bangladesh has asked for a quota of 4.5 million tons of wheat, 2 million tons of rice, 7 million tons of onions, 1.5 million tons of sugar, 1.25 million tons of ginger, 30 thousand tons of lentils and 10 thousand tons of garlic every year.

The above would-be food import figures prove that the BAL govt has decided to keep BD dependent upon Indian goodwill for keeping our people fed daily.

All our neighbors are self-sufficient but BAL wants to keep BD people marginalized, on the other hand, this is how it wants India to be benefitted from the dollars BD will use to import foods.

I deplore this India-leaning policy of the BAL govt. I wish the next freely and fairly elected GoB deviates from this policy and works hard to make the country self-sufficient in producing foods and exporting the excess.

 

[BananaRepublicUK]

The above would-be food import figures prove that the BAL govt has decided to keep BD dependent upon Indian goodwill for keeping our people fed daily.

All our neighbors are self-sufficient but BAL wants to keep BD people marginalized, on the other hand, this is how it wants India to be benefitted from the dollars BD will use to import foods.

I deplore this India-leaning policy of the BAL govt. I wish the next freely and fairly elected GoB deviates from this policy and works hard to make the country self-sufficient in producing foods and exporting the excess.

None of our neighbours have 180 million people camped in a tiny landmass with frequent floods and bouts of droughts

Thanks to BAL they are not starving like Indians

 

[bluesky]

We can compare our own failure with the success of Japan in the production of food there where the rice acreage is only 8 million acres. BD rice acreage is a staggering 21 million acres and it produces two crops a year against Japan's one crop.

Below are the two informative links on the production of rice in Japan.

Japan: rice production output | Statista

In 2020, the production volume of rice in the Japanese agricultural sector amounted to around 7.77 million tons.

www.statista.com

Japan’s Farming Population Rapidly Aging and Decreasing

Since1985 Japan’s farming population has shrunk by around 60% while the average age of farmers has steadily increased. Against this backdrop, the agricultural sector now faces a severe labor shortage.

www.nippon.com

The BAL govt approach is suicidal and unpatriotic. I wish the next govt to reverse this policy in favor of more local production locally instead of begging India. An excerpt from an internet source:

"Total rice production in Bangladesh was about 10.59 million tons in the year 1971 when the country's population was only about 70.88 million. However, the country is now producing about 25.0 million tons ------------".

- It means the rice yield in BD is (25 million tons/ 21 million acres x 2 crops) = 595 kg per acre.
- Refer to the links. The yield in Japan is (8.61 million tons/8 million acres x 1 crop) = 1,076 kg per acre.

The above discussion proves that BD rice production can be almost doubled with better inputs like good seeds, green fertilizer, timely irrigation, pesticides, etc.
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[kaykay]

I thought Bangladesh produces enough Rice...

 

[bluesky]

I thought Bangladesh produces enough Rice...

Below are the pictures of two onion fields in Japan.

Now, see the photograph of an onion field in Bangladesh. Note that our farmers have not been given education on how to prepare an onion cultivation field to raise its yield. The farmers follow the old traditional low-yield method. The result is the obvious shortfall and imports from India.

 

[kaykay]

Below are the pictures of two onion fields in Japan.

Now, see the photograph of an onion field in Bangladesh. Note that our farmers have not been given education on how to prepare an onion cultivation field to raise its yield. The farmers follow the old traditional low-yield method. The result is the obvious shortfall and imports from India.

This is a subcontinent problem to be honest. Low yield per acreage. But on a positive side, it only means that we can significantly increase our production in future.

 

[bluesky]

This is a subcontinent problem to be honest. Low yield per acreage. But on a positive side, it only means that we can significantly increase our production in future.

Yes. But, it is India that can raise the yield through the input of many scientific methods. I am not sure about BD because I have not read anybody telling us such a dream to raise the output.

Ask the BAL idiots here. They will respond in a chorus that since their Bangabandhu did not ever dream of such a feat, therefore, how can it be done?

A country's agriculture scientists must be aware first of the yield potentiality before they can raise the production to the optimum yield.

 

[BananaRepublicUK]

Yes. But, it is India that can raise the yield through the input of many scientific methods. I am not sure about BD because I have not read anybody telling us such a dream to raise the output.

Ask the BAL idiots here. They will respond in a chorus that since their Bangabandhu did not ever dream of such a feat, therefore, how can it be done?

A country's agriculture scientists must be aware first of the yield potentiality before they can raise the production to the optimum yield.

Mistri bhai,

The answer is simple!

Average Bangladeshi farmer was educated in a Madrasah whereas average Japanese farmer went to excellent technical college.

Farming is a science which is not taught in Madrasas.

Now! Who is responsible for the Madrasas?

You are a bloody hypocrite because you want BNP/Jamat back in power - to create more Madrasas!

Hasina cannot go back in time and educate these farmers in technical colleges.

Most of the farmers are superstitious and pray for good harvests instead of employing scientific methods.

Thank you bloody Ershad, Zia and his illiterate wife - for flooding our country with Madrasas!!!