Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to invest in Bangladesh\u2019s economic zones and food processing sector for mutual benefits.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister said this when UAE Minister of State for Food Security Mariam Almheiri paid a courtesy call on her Jatiya Sangsad Office on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re setting up 100 economic zones in the country for rapid industrialization and employment generation and lot of facilities are there,\u201d the premier said, adding, entrepreneurs can establish industries in the zones in their own choice.<\/p>\n
After the meeting, PM\u2019s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed reporters.<\/p>\n
The press secretary said that the UAE state minister highly appreciated the tremendous development of Bangladesh\u2019s agriculture sector.<\/p>\n
She expressed her country\u2019s keen interest to import surplus food from Bangladesh.<\/p>\n
In this connection, the prime minister briefly described the country\u2019s success stories in food production through diversification of crops.<\/p>\n
She mentioned cultivation of paddy three times a year instead of single time and increasing investment in the agriculture research that turned Bangladesh into a food surplus country.<\/p>\n
The prime minister said that the scientists of the country invented salinity, flood and drought-tolerant crops including paddy.<\/p>\n
PM\u2019s daughter Saima Wazed Hossain Putul, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam, Principal Secretary Md Nojibur Rahman and Military Secretary Major General Mia Mohammad Zainul Abedin were present at the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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