THIS is unfortunate that food losses post harvest and food waste at consumption account for a third of all the food produced in Bangladesh, as a recent World Bank report says, when insufficient food security forces 12 per cent of the poor to skip meals and about 9 per cent of the poor to pass a day without food, as a recent Power and Participation Research Centre...
Experts on Wednesday urged developing technologies to reduce significant annual food loss in Bangladesh as the country鈥檚 annual estimated food loss and waste is around 19.4 per cent from production to consumption level.
THE losses incurred by a growing waste of food 鈥� before, during and after the harvest of agricultural produces 鈥� stand to threaten food security. A government study, Estimation of Overall Food Losses and Waste at all Levels of the Food Chain that the horticulture department of the Bangladesh Agricultural University conducted and made public in...
