Bangladesh rents African land to boost food output
- Published: 17/05/2011 at 06:31 PM
- Online news: Asia
Bangladesh has leased tens of thousands of hectares of farmland in Africa as part of a government drive to improve food security in the poverty-stricken South Asian nation, an official said Tuesday.
A farmer talks on his mobile phone as he works in his wheat field at Pirojpur village, in the Jessore district of Bangladesh, in 2005. Bangladesh has leased tens of thousands of hectares of farmland in Africa as part of a government drive to improve food security in the poverty-stricken South Asian nation, an official said Tuesday.
Two Bangladeshi companies have leased 40,000 hectares (99,000 acres) of land in Uganda and Tanzania and another firm will sign a deal for a further 10,000 hectares in Tanzania this week, foreign ministry director Farhadul Islam said.
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- Writer: AFP News agency
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