Bangladesh is an agricultural country. The total cultivable land is around 8.44 hectares and 62% of manpower is engaged in agriculture. Major agricultural products are rice, jute, wheat, potato, pulses, sugarcane, tea, tobacco etc. Tea, leather and frozen shrimp are also major foreign exchange earners. Agriculture, to a large degree based on subsistence farming, is still the most important sector with a share in the GDP of 23.5%. Agriculture is crucial for attaining overall growth, adjustment and poverty alleviation in the country. The sources of this growth are productivity gains,...