Category: Tobacco Cultivation

Speakers at a webinar have said that it is necessary to finalize the policy to control tobacco cultivation in the interest of ensuring the health, environment and food security in the country. Speaking at the function as the chief guest, Agriculture Minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said that amount of agricultural land in the country is decreasing. Food security needs to be ensured in the limited space. “We have no any programme in favour of tobacco. The Agriculture Ministry is always making efforts to produce other agricultural products as an alternative to tobacco. If all of us work on a roadmap, it will be possible to make Bangladesh free from tobacco by 2040,” he said. Tobacco Control…

Tobacco is an obstacle in all sectors of development, including health, economics and environment. (Krishi Biponana Aiyn, 2018) Agricultural Marketing Act, 2018 has enlisted tobacco as cash crop. It will help to develop and expand tobacco production and consumption. As a result progress of tobacco control activities will be greatly interrupted. In this circumstance, Bangladesh anti-Tobacco Alliance and other anti-tobacco organizations jointly organized a campaign on 16th January 2020 in front of Abahoni Playground on demand of excluding tobacco from the list of cash crops. Speakers also demanded necessary actions by relevant government organization to promote cultivation of food crops instead of tobacco. The campaign was presided by Director of Work for a Better Bangladesh (WBB) Trust, Gaous…