In Bangladesh, there is an acute shortage of food. Population grows in Geomatrical proportion whereas food is produced in Arithmatic proportion. So there remains a constant problem of food and arises the question of growing more food.
Our land is losing its capacity to grow more food. The land is being continuously fragmented and the ratio between land and population is becoming wider. The pressure of growing population on land is too heavy. Moreover, natural calamities like floods and cyclones affect food production very badly. To meet the food problem, we should increase the production of food. We should adopt scientific method of cultivation. Co-operative farming should be introduced. Irrigation facilities should be expanded.
All kinds of land should be brought under cultivation. High yielding variety of seeds should be used and fertilizers and pesticides should also be used in scientific method. Sufficient amount of fertilizers and insecticides should be made available. The cultivators should be well trained and should be taught how to use fertilizers and insecticides. The Government should sincerely take positive steps to increase food production within the shortest possible time. As food crisis is now increasing all over the world, it is becoming more difficult to import food at low prices from other countries. So the government should make all out efforts to supply required amount of fertilizers, good seeds, pesticides and other necessary equipments so that farmers can grow more food.
Farmers should be provided loan on easy terms. Co-operative farming should be encouraged. Measures to protect food crops from drought, floods and cyclones should also be taken.
In spite of so many hurdles, there is still enough scope to increase food production in our country. The goal of attaining self-sufficiency in food certainly can be attained. This problem cannot be solved by any single agency or organisation, nor by the government alone. It can be done only by the concerted efforts of the whole nation.
