Food Security of Bangladesh Essay

though they have taken so some initiatives for feed security recently, but those are not sufficient comparatively to our festering population. Although food grain is more available in good yield years, Bangladesh as a whole still has a very small(a) level of nutriment. This means many households and individuals do not eat a balanced, nutritious diet, even in good years. According to the World Bank, nigh 33 million of the 150 million people in Bangladesh cannot unfold an ordinary daily intake of more than 1800 kilocalories (the minimum standard for nutrition as set by the World Food Program).For people in most developing countries, the daily calorie average is 2,828. In Bangladesh, that average is only 2,190. P everyplacety is the major factor effecting food security in Bangladesh. Despite the impressive increases in food grain, around half of Bangladeshis lodge below the established food based poverty line. And, as many as one third are living in ingrained poverty and sev erely undernourished. Recent food price increases, regular natural disasters, and strains on the global economic market have caused additional destabilization.Bangladesh is a agricultural land. And our clownish comprises 30% of GDP by producing food. Rice is our of import food and our population requires 55. 0 million tons of rice per year. withal our nation is now producing 27. 32 million tons for more than one hundred forty million people (BBS and DAE, 2007). Though the growth of productiveness goes up, but these growths of productivity cannot reduce the poor peoples hunger of our country. Without rice, Bangladesh cultivates other crop, vegetables and fruits. Though having natural calamities production of these things are well.But to distribute all over the country Bangladesh has to import some. And for this reason market price of these foods remain spicy for some corrupted business, tax and for unplanned steps of government. For this reasons people of our country suffer a lo t recently. Not only this, imbalanced and short livelihood is quite responsible for food security. There are so many rich peoples in Bangladesh who leads luxurious life, eat rich and dear(predicate) and at the same time waste a lot. And they dont have any concern about the poor people of their country