As dawn broke yesterday, Asia Begum prepared again for her daily battle to buy essential goods at subsidised prices in order to save a few bucks and bear other family expenses.
According to a study by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), the overall prevalence of CS among Bangladeshi mothers was found to be 3.99% in 2004 which jumped to 33.22% in 2017-18 - almost eightfold
Agriculture has become a risky profession with increasing costs of farming and concerns over getting fair price of agri production, said Abdus Sattar Mandal, former vice-chancellor of the Bangladesh Agricultural University. He made the remarks at a seminar titled "Agrarian Transition or Rural Transformation?