Aps News Desk
Bangladesh is going to clinch third place in global rice production with an increased output of 36 million metric tonnes.
A recent World Agricultural Production report of US Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimated that Bangladesh will have 36 million metric tons or rice while Indonesia 34.9 million metric tonnes, India 118 million metric tonnes and China 149 million metric tonnes 2020/21 period. Rice production has increased by three times since the liberation of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was 4th in rice production while Indonesia 3rd, India second and China first in the world.
“Global rice production area is forecast to rise in 2020/21. Production is up by more than 8 million tons to a new record. There are large production increases in several countries including China, Thailand, and the United States,” the report said.
World rice consumption is set to increase by more than 1 percent with the largest growth in Asia (primarily India and China) and Sub-Saharan Africa, it said.
The USDA estimates Indonesia’s 2019/20 rice production at 33.5 million metric tons, down 8 percent from last month and down 2 percent from last year.
In the current Aman season, Bangladesh witnessed a record rice production while rice production has increased in Aush season.
Boro rice production may increase 4.5 lakh metric tonnes from the target production of 204.360 lakh metric tonnes this year. Dr Alhaz Uddin Ahmed, director of Field Service Wing, Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), said with one after another record production of Aush, Aman and Boro, the country’s total production of the staple food shot up.
The USDA report said a good weather condition and increased yield due to further cultivation of hybrid and high yield varieties (HYV) lead to increase such production in Bangladesh. Paddy is cultivated on 71 percent of the total 1.54 crore hectares of cropland in the country.
Boro accounts for more than 50 percent of the country’s total rice production while Aush less than 10 percent, according to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) data. Boro cultivation starts in November-December. Farmers are waiting to harvest the paddy across the country while harvesting of boro paddy started in Haor area and that in the country’s other area will start within a week. Source: Daily Sun
Apsnews Desk/15May/PTI
