About the Journal

Note from Editorial Board

 

Bangladesh agriculture has achieved remarkable progress during the last decade towards self-sufficiency in food grain production. About 50 percent of Bangladesh’s population is primarily employed in agriculture, with more than 70 percent of its land dedicated to growing crops. Despite agriculture contributing to such a large percentage of Bangladesh’s overall economy, it has remained largely subsistence based, with uncertain crop yields and inefficient infrastructure limiting the ability of farmers to fully commercialize their production.

Bangladesh is one of the promising countries towards attaining SDGs on action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. As part of the UN Development System, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has put in place four dedicated streams of work to support Bangladesh in their efforts to coordination, localization, design policy, plans and programmes for the sustainable future, access and generate finance, source and analyze data, and drive innovation and learning-supporting in integrating 17 SDGs.

In this context, the current volume of the journal is published. This volume of the Farm Economy contains the papers reviewed by the selected reviewers. The contributions from the learned authors of the articles included in this volume are highly acknowledged. This is the first regular issue of its kind. Become all the previous 16 issues of Farm Economy were published with the conference/seminar papers of the Bangladesh Agricultural Economists Association. The contributions from the members of the Editorial Board and the reviewers of the articles are also gratefully acknowledged for their scholastic efforts in finalizing the manuscript. Despite utmost efforts there may have some errors and omissions for which the editorial board bears the full responsibility.