A paper on Bangladeshi Agriculture Sector
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A paper on Bangladeshi Agriculture Sector Introduction: Bangladesh, a poor developing country, is extremely dependent on agriculture for a number of reasons. Over the last three decades, the Bangladeshi agricultural sector has experienced tremendous changes. Agriculture continues to play a major role in Bangladesh as it employs about 67% of the total working population even though the share of agriculture in GDP shrunk by 21.2% in last 13 years from 1973/74 to 1996/97. Therefore, needless to say that agriculture is the most dominant sector in the Bangladeshi economy. Comparative Scenario of Agricultural Sector: Three broad categories can be used to classify the performance of agricultural sector over the past few decades. They are- 1) Pre-Green Revolution Era 2) Green Revolution Era 3) Post- Green Revolution Era Pre- green revolution era covers the time span before the mid sixties when the green revolution package was introduced globally. Farmers did not have access to modern agricultural facilities like agri-information...

