Food production Bangladesh's success in agriculture Bangladesh's success in agriculture is enviable. Due to declining agricultural land, population growth and climate change, floods, droughts, salinity and hostile nature, Bangladesh is now an example in the world in food grain production. Bangladesh is gradually moving ahead of the world average production of paddy, wheat and maize. Bangladesh is now the third largest producer of vegetables and the fourth largest producer of rice and fish in the world. Bangladesh is also at the forefront of flood, drought, salinity and disaster tolerant crop varieties. The price of fertilizer has been reduced in four phases in two consecutive terms of the present government. A bank account was opened for Tk 10, the subsidy for irrigation water was transferred directly to the farmer's account and materials assistance cards were distributed among 162 million farmers. These groundbreaking steps have resulted in enviable success in agriculture. The government is providing all possible materials to the farmers. The Agricultural Materials Assistance Card introduced by the present government has been widely acclaimed at home and abroad. Following Bangladesh, the Government of India has taken initiative to issue Agricultural Materials Assistance Card. In 35 districts of the country, tractors, power tillers, harvesters and other agricultural equipments have been provided with 25 percent subsidy. Free supply of fertilizers and seeds under agricultural rehabilitation activities continues. Aushey incentive package is also continuing. Since independence, Bangladesh's rice production has more than tripled, wheat twice, vegetables five times and maize ten times. Even two decades ago, half of the country had one crop and the rest had two crops. At present the country is getting an average of two crops a year. This success is due to the timely planning of the government, the joint efforts of hardworking farmers and talented agricultural scientists and extensionists. After independence, two tons of rice was produced per hectare of land in the country. Now the production per hectare is more than four tons. If you calculate with paddy, it is 8 tons. Moreover, the world average production of maize per hectare is 5.12 tons. In Bangladesh this rate is 7.96 tons. The United States is on top of Bangladesh by producing 10.34 tons per hectare of food grains. Bangladesh is followed by Argentina, China and Brazil. In this way, Bangladesh has risen in the list of top countries in the world in terms of increasing the production of staple food grains. Bangladesh ranks fourth in the world in rice production Bangladesh has set a record of producing about three and a half crore tonnes of food grains per year in bumper yields of paddy in Aman, Aus and Boro seasons. This success of agriculture is also playing an important role in the economic development of Bangladesh as a whole. The average productivity in the world is about three tons. And in Bangladesh it is 4.15 tons. On December 26, 2014, the government started exporting rice to Sri Lanka for the first time. About 50,000 metric tons of rice was exported in two phases. Besides, 10,000 tons of rice has been sent to Nepal, which was hit by a devastating earthquake on May 8, 2015 through Banglabandha port. It is a manifestation of the country's rice production capacity. The country is third in vegetable production today The vegetable revolution has taken place in the country in the last one era. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Bangladesh is now the third largest producer of vegetables in the world. At one time only vegetables were cultivated in Jessore in the central and northern and south-western parts of the country. Now vegetables are being cultivated all year round in almost all parts of the country. At present 60 types and 200 varieties of vegetables are being produced in the country. At present there are 1 crore 82 lakh farming families in the country, almost all of these farming families cultivate vegetables. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's Statistical Yearbook-2013, Bangladesh has the highest rate of arable land in the world between 2000 and 2010, with a growth rate of 5 percent. At the same time, Bangladesh ranks third in terms of annual growth rate of total vegetable production. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, 20 years ago, in 1994, the per capita daily consumption of vegetables in the country was 42 grams. According to the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), the per capita consumption of vegetables in the country last year was 80 grams. Bangladesh is fourth in fish production Once the word 'Bengali in fish and rice' was confined to the book, now it is real. Bangladesh ranks fourth in the world in fish production. Fish exports have increased 135 times. The FAO has predicted that Bangladesh will be the first of the four countries in the world to achieve huge success in fish farming by 2022. Then Thailand, India and China. Between 2004 and 2014, fish production in Bangladesh increased by 53 percent. In the 2013-14 financial year, the amount of frozen fish export of Bangladesh has increased by 17.35 percent and stood at Tk 4,149 crore. As a result of various initiatives including conservation of Jatka, the production of the country's most popular fish Hilsa has increased by 52,000 tons to 3.5 million tons. The per capita consumption of fish in the country has increased by 100 per cent in the last ten years as the price of fish is within the reach of the average consumer. Bangladesh is fourth in the world in goat production Bangladesh ranks fourth in the world in goat production and fifth in goat meat production. Bangladesh's Black Bengal breed goat has been recognized as the best breed in the world. Bangladesh is seventh in mango production South Asia accounts for more than half of the world's mango production. Bangladesh is in the top ten in the production of the fruit. According to the latest assessment by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), this has been achieved through the production of about one million tonnes of mangoes in the last two years. According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), mango production in the country was 6 lakh 61 thousand tons in the financial year 2007-08. There, in the 2011-12 financial year, it increased further to about 9 lakh tons. There are about one and a half crore mango trees in the country. The largest retail product in the world