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The ministry is the apex body for formulation and administration of the rules, regulations and laws related to Agriculture in Bangladesh. Directorate/ Agency [ edit ]
Bangladesh Food Safety Authority at Chawkbazar on 13 April 2023. The authority was formed in February 2015, [5] under the Food Safety Act 2013. [6] [7] The authority works under the Ministry of Food. [8] The authority was modeled on the United States Food and Drug Administration. [9] It is governed by a five-member decision-making body. [10]
It was renamed to Ministry of Food & Relief and then renamed again as the Ministry of Food & Disaster Management. In 2012, the government of Bangladesh reorganized it as the Ministry of Food and another separate ministry was created called the Ministry of Disaster Management. [2]
The Government agencies in Bangladesh are state controlled organizations that act independently to carry out the policies of the Government of Bangladesh. The Government Ministries are relatively small and merely policy-making organizations, allowed to control agencies by policy decisions.
After the Independence of Bangladesh, the Ministry of Food & Civil supplies was created, of which the Directorate General of Food was a department. [5] The Directorate is now part of the Ministry of Food, which was created as part of a government reorganisation in 2012.
Agriculture is the largest employment sector in Bangladesh, making up 14.2 percent of Bangladesh's GDP in 2017 and employing about 42.7 percent of the workforce. [1] As of the financial year 2022 to 2023, the agricultural sector contributed to more than 12% of GDP. [ 2 ]
Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation or BADC, [1] is an autonomous government body that manages the agricultural Inputs Supplier i.e. agricultural seeds, non-nitrogen fertilizer and Minor Irrigation facilitating to farmers of Bangladesh and is located in Motijheel Thana, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Bangladesh National Portal is a national portal of the People's Republic of Bangladesh under Access to Information programme [1] run by the Prime Minister's Office of Bangladesh. [2] The information portal aims to provide information about all national unions, upazilas, districts and divisions of the country. It was launched on 7 March 2015 as ...