Agriculture is an important industry in Bangladesh. The challenge for agriculture over the coming decades would be to meet the increasing demand of Bangladesh for food in sustainable way. Water resources and land area constraints, soil degradation and climate change coupled with rapidly growing increasingly urbanized, pests' outbreak, migration of agricultural labor to urban areas and across borders and political and economical instability have made this task more difficult. Agricultural production relies heavily on man made chemicals used as fertilizers and pesticides and to regulate plant growth. The benefits of their use in terms of economic returns and of improved human health and well being have led to the rapid country wide adoption of this chemical technology. Their use in advanced countries is often regulated and monitored because of potential problems associated with their injudicious use. Bangladesh lacks the experience and expertise necessary to solve such problem. This paper provides a brief summary of the pasts, present and future of these chemicals and impacts on their presence in agricultural sectors particularly in food security.

Chemical use in agriculture towards meeting the food security of Bangladesh

248th National Meeting (2014)

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