Bangladesh eyes Africa as Middle-East job markets shrink

[nahtanbob]

Why you always need to mix one thing to another? Is contract farming something a new concept? From South America to Africa many countries are leasing land for farming. You have the option to employ local people for farming or bring your own agro labor. Government of Bangladesh is exactly looking for that. Plus food not necessarily need to be sent back to Bangladesh. It can be sold to the local market or exported to other destinations as well. It is a big opportunity to earn extra revenue and employ labors at the same time. Please stop whining all the time if you can not wish well.

You cannot farm in an alien country with no knowledge of farming conditions.

Farming on the scale mentioned is low income industry.

There is no rules in Africa on what happens to the farm output. The government can force you to sell it at a cheap rate.

There is a significant overhead flying to Africa and working here

 

[Black_cats]

I will ask you again about this project after 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and so on to know about the progress of producing and importing FUFU from the African countries. I understand rice is not their staple food because it cannot be produced there.

So, now get used to eating this FUFU because it causes constipation too high. People in Bd may not go to toilets for one week if they eat FUFU. Instead of talking about air ticket prices, please get yourself ready not to use toilets. It will make WASA happy, though, because it will have to supply less water.


Please don't talk like our BD brats in the PDF. Is it necessary for us to go to Africa, cultivate groundnuts, walnuts or coconuts there and import the items? We can pay and import the items now. Pay in dollars and they will happily send them. This is the real world of trade and business, and not what our PDF brats claim here incessantly.

- PDF brats do not really know that west African cotton is a long fiber one better than Indian ones. BD proposed to import them a few years back and their Embassies finally answered it would take 5 months for a container ship to reach Chittagong.
- 5 months is a long time for the importers. They can import from India in one month. So, BD govt proposed to build a few warehouses in Chittagong, cotton would be shipped at the relevant countries' discretion to the warehouse, our traders would choose a product, pay the money and take the cotton to their spinning mills.
- However, these African countries could not even do this small thing.

I personally liked the BD initiative and hope something related (not FUFU) will happen this time like:

- Our traders (Trading Associations) build warehouses in some African ports.
- They stock goods in the season.
- They receive orders from BD importers and ship. It will take just over one month to reach Chittagong.

However, our brats want BD to buy land, cultivate FUFU and import it to cause severe constipation. Medical doctors will be happy at that, no doubt.

Do you even read before making comment? They are talking about land leasing and contract farming. So not necessarily they will bring all the output to Bangladesh. If it can create some extra income and employment what’s the problem? It is said Africa has world’s 60% free cultivable land and utilizing only 15% of its agricultural land.

Obviously there are some hurdles there but lots of potential as well. The following video is 7 year old but gave useful information related to the issue.

 

[Nilgiri]

Please don't talk like our BD brats in the PDF. Is it necessary for us to go to Africa, cultivate groundnuts, walnuts or coconuts there and import the items? We can pay and import the items now. Pay in dollars and they will happily send them. This is the real world of trade and business, and not what our PDF brats claim here incessantly.

Look friend, its about making use of human resources. Simply what is the job opportunity for BD farmers within BD with limited (expensive) land compared to what they can be retrained easily for (for say industry)?

If its not good or easy, then export of farm labour is an option...esp to land where they are lacking good farmers and farming knowhow.

If BD already has huge foreign labour export (construction etc), is farming really a big stretch?...is not farming simply the construction/tending of land for production of food?

It is about providing value added opportunity for your labour, what is the most the labour can do with its knowhow it has....compared to cost and time of expanding the knowhow for other sectors. Which provides the most value with resource pool you have to deploy etc etc... all need to be taken into consideration.

If land is a constraining factor, then you have to look at where its cheap to acquire and cultivate land, it may not be your own country....i.e cost of finding new land for the farmer compare to training+ finding a new job for the farmer (if land and farm labour is getting oversaturated and too pricey at home).

Groundnut suggestion was simply something that is known to BD palate already and will fetch good steady price.... rather than fufu or something like that. But it need not be exported to BD...simply grow what fetches best price and land and inputs are relatively cheap.....then you remit profits just like you remit currently....and more land is made arable and productive for Africa to take over as time progresses and they get more of their own farmers too.

Please have read for example:

https://ahmedabadmirror.indiatimes....s-its-africa-calling/articleshow/72215041.cms

 

[bluesky]

Do you even read before making comment? They are talking about land leasing and contract farming. So not necessarily they will bring all the output to Bangladesh. If it can create some extra income and employment what’s the problem? It is said Africa has world’s 60% free cultivable land and utilizing only 15% of its agricultural land.

No more stupid talking. I will wait another 10 years to 2020 to see how and what Bd will do in African countries. But, do not push your luck to this prospect. Why are you not telling me when the negotiations have completed with the African countries that you are jumping with joy? Why do not you give us particulars about the negotiations. Is not the BD govt can do clapping in one hand?

If done properly as Japan does,. BD has the prospect of producing staple foodstuff enough for consuming by 300 million people. Please do your math to know if I am wrong. However, bring up the efficiency/yield to Japan level.