The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Coordination between production and development was needed to ensure social stability. Speakers said this at a roundtable on 'Production, Development, Social stability: vis-à-vis Agriculture' at the Engineers Institute yesterday.

Krishi Unnayan Kendra organised the meeting, which was attended by former chief election commissioner justice Abdur Rauf, as chief guest.

Justice Rauf said food security should be ensured by increasing agricultural productivity and maintaining a production cycle of various agricultural products.

He said," Social stability cannot be ensured without ensuring food security. People will not feel safe in empty stomach even with nuclear weapon in hand."

He also said without any clear statistics about our production and its capacity the country could not step toward development. Alamgir Mohiuddin, editor of the daily Naya Diganta, Prof Dr Abdul Karim, Prof Dr Tajul Islam of Bangladesh Agricultural University and Rajia Akter Banu of Dhaka University, among others, spoke at the meeting.