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PM seeks UAE investment in economic zones
DHAKA, June 18, 2019 (BSS) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today called upon the
United Arab Emirates (UAE) to invest in Bangladesh’s economic zones for mutual
benefits.
“Bangladesh will welcome the UAE investment in these zones,” she said when UAE
Minister of State for Food Security Mariam Almheiri paid a courtesy call on her Jatiya
Sangsad Office here this evening.
“We’re setting up 100 economic zones in the country for rapid industrialization and
employment generation and lot of facilities are there,” the premier said, adding,
entrepreneurs can establish industries in the zones in their own choice.
After the meeting, PM’s Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim briefed reporters.
He said the prime minister also urged the UAE entrepreneurs to set up food processing
industries in the zones.
The press secretary said that the UAE state minister highly appreciated the
tremendous development of Bangladesh’s agriculture sector.
She expressed her country’s keen interest to import surplus food from Bangladesh.
In this connection, the prime minister briefly described the country’s success
stories in food production through diversification of crops.
She mentioned cultivation of paddy three times a year instead of single time and
increasing investment in the agriculture research that turned Bangladesh into a food
surplus country.
The prime minister said that the scientists of the country invented salinity, flood
and drought-tolerant crops including paddy.
PM’s daughter Saima Wazed Hossain Putul, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md
Shahriar Alam, Principal Secretary Md Nojibur Rahman and Military Secretary Major
General Mia Mohammad Zainul Abedin were present at the meeting.
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