Bangladesh vegetable production has increased five times in 40 years.

[Homo Sapiens]

Bangladesh vegetable production has increased five times in 40 years
Publication date: 1/26/2017

Vegetables are cultivated in only 1.8 per cent of the total cultivatable land. Besides this, the premises of houses, tin sheds and roof tops are used for vegetable cultivation. In some areas vegetables are also cultivated on floating systems. Almost 20-25 varieties of vegetables, including tomato, bottle gourd and cauliflower, are produced year-round. By using improved varieties and modern technologies 30 per cent more vegetables can be produced in the country, according to scientists.

According to FAO, vegetable production has increased five times in the past 40 years. Bangladesh has scored 3rd in global vegetable production, next to China and India. The farmers are getting a huge profit from vegetable production which is changing their life. Literate youths are joining the industry and are achieving targets with the use of improved technology and their talents.

The land under vegetable cultivation in the country has increased at the rate of 5.0 per cent in the last decade. The rate of increase of vegetable production was 6.0 per cent in the last three years. Land under vegetable cultivation during the current Rabi season has been set at 528 thousand hectares. Every year 10 million MT of potato is produced of which 100 thousand MT are exported abroad.

Exports
Vegetable and fruits are now exported to about 50 countries around the world. 60 per cent of the total quantity is exported to the Middle East and the remaining 40 per cent to European and other countries.

The exported vegetables includes yard-long bean, cowpea, cucumber, snake gourd, bitter gourd, tomatoes, papaya, eggplant, pumpkin, lady's finger, pumpkin, amaranth, spinach, Indian spinach, cauliflower, cabbage, green chilii, taro, coco yam, green papaya, plantain, jute leaf, bottle gourd leaf, arum leaf, water lily, mustard green, bean seed, jackfruit seed, aroid, etc.

To increase earnings from export, the government has taken initiatives to export salmonella-free betel leaf and bacteria-free vegetable. The demand for Bangladeshi vegetables is increasing in the South Asian sub-continent and the Gulf region day by day.

A survey report shows that 40 per cent of the total vegetables is wasted from production to the consumers' level. Officials believe that much of this waste could be minimized if there were improved storage facilities and good communication systems.

 

[Russell]

In that article you see the good and bad...production up astronomically....yet, a lot of waste due to inadequate infratructure!

 

[Providence]

what about the population ? @BDforever

 

[Kandari-Hushiyaar]

Bangladesh is a little country which is

4th Most rice producer

2nd Most Jute producer

3rd vegetable producer

4th Fresh water fish producer

8th Mango producer

Now Imagine if half the country is packed with 150 million of people, How fertile the land is

 

[Nilgiri]

Now that the BeeDee tag team high fiving each other has first not provided the link for this article, here we are:

http://www.freshplaza.com/article/1...oduction-has-increased-five-times-in-40-years

Their source: http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.c...olution-in-vegetable-production-in-Bangladesh

I would like the BeeDee team to now provide what FAO source report has said BD is 3rd after China and India in vegetable production? Or we are going to directly believe what some third rate websites (the OP has interestingly not provided link for) say?

Not one of you even bothered to look at the FAOSTAT database and check a few other major countries vegetable production, in which case you would have seen that countries like Russia, Japan, Brazil all have more vegetable production than Bangladesh (all around 1.5 - 3 times that of BD). Do the query yourself:

http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#home

Or simply provide this FAO report that goes against their database (with some other aggregate definition of what vegetables are etc)

It really is no wonder you lot will be less educated and skilled in future than Indians are currently right now overall:

https://defence.pk/threads/whats-holding-back-bangladesh.474841/#post-9149084

 

[Kandari-Hushiyaar]

Now that the BeeDee tag team high fiving each other has first not provided the link for this article, here we are:

http://www.freshplaza.com/article/1...oduction-has-increased-five-times-in-40-years

Their source: http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.c...olution-in-vegetable-production-in-Bangladesh

I would like the BeeDee team to now provide what FAO source report has said BD is 3rd after China and India in vegetable production? Or we are going to directly believe what some third rate websites (the OP has interestingly not provided link for) say?

Not one of you even bothered to look at the FAOSTAT database and check a few other major countries vegetable production, in which case you would have seen that countries like Russia, Japan, Brazil all have more vegetable production than Bangladesh (all around 1.5 - 3 times that of BD). Do the query yourself:

http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#home

Or simply provide this FAO report that goes against their database (with some other aggregate definition of what vegetables are etc)

It really is no wonder you lot will be less educated and skilled in future than Indians are currently right now overall:

https://defence.pk/threads/whats-holding-back-bangladesh.474841/#post-9149084

Per Capita Vegetable and fruit production index in Bangladesh is 157 and in Japan is 93. I would like to know what does this mean and why it isn't against your claim that Japan produces more vegetable than Bangladesh?

 

[Nilgiri]

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Per Capita Vegetable and fruit production index in Bangladesh is 157 and in Japan is 93. I would like to know what does this mean and why it isn't against your claim that Japan produces more vegetable than Bangladesh?

That is an index of production with a reference year.

A country can produce 10 million tons of steel and increase (or decrease this) as time goes on....but that 10 million represents 100 in its case.

Another countries 100 can be 1,000 tons of steel and it can thus have a big index now, say if its now 5000 tons of steel produced today (index of 500).

The index is basically a country-specific comparison to itself (i.e how its growing). Nothing to do with the actual production levels.

Its similar to saying Bangladesh is doing much better than Japan economically since BD is averaging a GDP growth rate of 6%+ and Japan is barely registering 1% etc. But does higher GDP growth rate mean a higher GDP (level)? Clearly no.

 

[Kandari-Hushiyaar]

That is an index of production with a reference year.

A country can produce 10 million tons of steel and increase (or decrease this) as time goes on....but that 10 million represents 100 in its case.

Another countries 100 can be 1,000 tons of steel and it can thus have a big index now, say if its now 5000 tons of steel produced today (index of 500).

The index is basically a country-specific comparison to itself (i.e how its growing). Nothing to do with the actual production levels.

Its similar to saying Bangladesh is doing much better than Japan economically since BD is averaging a GDP growth rate of 6%+ and Japan is barely registering 1% etc. But does higher GDP growth rate mean a higher GDP (level)? Clearly no.

Okay, But I failed to find Total production of vegetables by country, And Many newspapers of Bangladesh reported it quoting qualified scientists. Not only the financial express.

http://www.banglanews24.com/national/article/49352/Bangladesh-3rd-in-global-vegetable-production

 

[Nilgiri]

Okay, But I failed to find Total production of vegetables by country, And Many newspapers of Bangladesh reported it quoting qualified scientists. Not only the financial express.

http://www.banglanews24.com/national/article/49352/Bangladesh-3rd-in-global-vegetable-production

It would be great if someone actually provided the title of the FAO report so I can search for it that way.

As for production, go here:

http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QC

I used vegetables (fresh), production quantity, 2014 and then select whichever major countries you wish as well.

Leguminous vegetables (I guess the various dals and such), data generally not available in this database....but are they really counted as vegetables by these BD sources anyway? If so I still need to see the report and the data combining into one general category of "vegetables". It will have to be newer data than 2014 which is as recent as this database goes.

I cant find anything of the sort in the FAO archives either....so I have no idea what this original source is.

 

[mb444]

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Per Capita Vegetable and fruit production index in Bangladesh is 157 and in Japan is 93. I would like to know what does this mean and why it isn't against your claim that Japan produces more vegetable than Bangladesh?

It means BD produces more vegetables per person than Japan.

You will note it says vegetables and fruit and it has also separated out potatoes onions etc as tubers.... maybe in specific vegetables Japan does produce more in absolute and per capita terms.

However on the whole given Japan has 30 million less people it would seem silly for anyone to claim japs produce more vegetables unless the statement is more qualified.

 

[fallstuff]

High vegetable production, hmm. This looks like the nefarious work of RAW !!

 

[bd_4_ever]

High vegetable production, hmm. This looks like the nefarious work of RAW !!

Makes sense. After all, vegetables are RAW.

 

[Bilal9]

Makes sense. After all, vegetables are RAW.

 

[Nilgiri]

It means BD produces more vegetables per person than Japan.

You will note it says vegetables and fruit and it has also separated out potatoes onions etc as tubers.... maybe in specific vegetables Japan does produce more in absolute and per capita terms.

However on the whole given Japan has 30 million less people it would seem silly for anyone to claim japs produce more vegetables unless the statement is more qualified.

No it doesnt say that at all. If a tiny subsaharan country has an index of 200, does that mean they produce more vegetables than BD? No. Like I said it does not illustrate the actual production level (which when divided by population gives per capita)....but rather the overall increase in production from a reference year.