Country is now free from hunger: Food Minister

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder has claimed that the country is now free from hunger.

He made the remarks at a workshop on ‘The participation of Bangladesh in the UN Food Systems Summit 2021’ in Dhaka on Sunday.

“The government is now prioritising to ensure availability of nutritious food for all,” he said.

The workshop was organised by the Food Ministry ahead of the Food Systems Summit on September 23 in New York to be organsied by the UN Secretary-General in collaboration with the UN’s Rome-based agencies.

“There is not much problem in the supply chain. I want to say that the country has achieved self-sufficiency in food. Right now, it is not seen that people went to the market to buy food but returned without the empty-handed. The country will be self-sufficient in nutritious food. That’s the priority,” he said.

The Prime Minister is expected to present the National Pathway Document to achieve food safety in the next two decades toward sustainable development goals, according to the

minister.

Food Secretary Mosammat Nazmanara Khanum expressed her confidence to achieve safe and nutritious food through the National Pathway Document in the next 10 years.

“All 17 goals of sustainable development are inter-related. All the goals will be achieved if the food system can be transformed. What we will do in the next 10 years has been explained in the pathway document,” she said.