In developing countries the poor farmers do Agriculture. To eradicate extreme poverty we need to promote agricultural value chain from production to marketing.
In countries like Bangladesh the larger share of agricultural production goes to middleman. Smallholder farmers need to better engage with agricultural value chains for improving their living standards. The farmers of Bangladesh are frequently affected by various climate shocks, which also affect their livelihoods. This is one of the major reason for increasing rural to urban migration. The research centers focuses their research area to create various stress-tolerant rice varieties that can withstand on climate change. But still the adoption as well as diffusion rate is very low compared to varity release. So, only development of varieties is not enough, attention also need to increase the adoption rate among the farmers to reduce poverty.
Another main issue, young generation don’t want to be involved in this sector for their livelihood. Engaging them in agriculture or agribusiness activity will be a good initiative for economic growth and to reduce poverty.
Ms. Mou Rani Sarker