Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina assured Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe that Bangladesh will support Sri Lanka’s agricultural modernisation program, when the two met in New Delhi on March 10. They were in the Indian capital to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On his part, Wickremesinghe affirmed his commitment to despatching a delegation of Sri Lankan agricultural experts to Bangladesh.
Its objective would be to study Bangladesh’s agricultural modernisation program through cooperative methods and gather valuable insights to enhance Sri Lanka’s own agricultural modernisation efforts. Bangladesh’s phenomenal growth Bangladesh’s phenomenal growth in agriculture and agro industries, especially since the advent of Sheikh Hasina as Prime Minister in 2008, should be a catalyst for economic engagement between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. With its GDP growing at 6% in 2023, Bangladesh is no longer a “basket case”.
In 2007-2008, the country had seen food riots. But Bangladesh is now a “South Asian Tiger” developing expertise in several sectors like agriculture, inland fisheries, pharmaceuticals, disaster prevention and disaster management. Globally, Bangladesh is now the fourth-largest rice producer, the second-largest jute producer, the fourth-largest in mango production, the fifth-largest in vegetable production and the fourth-largest in inland fisheries.
Bangladesh has reached self-sufficiency in food, including.