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Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock Minister Mohammad Amin Ur Rashid has said there is no fertilizer shortage in the country and no possibility of a shortage in the future. He said government warehouses currently hold 35 percent more fertilizer than they did during the same period last year. Speaking as the chief guest at a stakeholder consultation meeting on production and management in the fertilizer, seed, irrigation, fisheries and livestock sectors across eight districts of Rajshahi...

Bangladesh ranks 94th in the world in terms of geographical area. However, despite its relatively small size, Bangladesh ranks first in the world in terms of the share of arable land relative to its total land area. About 60.6 percent of the country’s total land is arable. These findings were published in a ranking prepared by international media outlet Visual Capitalist using World Bank statistics. It said geographical size is not the only measure of a country’s agricultural fertility. D...