ANALYSIS OF FOOD PRODUCTION AND POVERTY REDUCTION OF BANGLADESH
ANALYSIS OF FOOD PRODUCTION AND POVERTY REDUCTION OF BANGLADESH

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to investigate the food production and poverty reductionof Bangladesh in brief. Although the country faces various problems for theeconomic progress since the independent in 1971, in the last forty-eight years,the increase of food production and poverty reduction of the country becameremarkably. Bangladesh is a densely populated developing country in thesouthern Asia. The Government of Bangladesh is trying efficiently to reducepoverty of the country. In Bangladesh, about 20% of the populations still livebelow the poverty line, heavily undernourished with inadequate access to safeand nutritious food for a healthy life. The data of the study were collectedthrough the secondary sources of the country. In Bangladesh, during 2000 to2005, income poverty reduced from 48.9% to 40.0%, 2010 to 2016 reduced from31.50% to 20%, and in 2018 it is expected to be reduce to 16%. An attempt hasbeen taken here to show the ways to increase more food production and povertyreduction of the country.

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