Hasina wants UAE to invest in economic zones

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Bangla Tribune Desk
Published : 22:03, Jun 18, 2019 | Updated : 22:05, Jun 18, 2019

United Arab Emirates’ Minister of State for Food Security Mariam Almheiri pays a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the latter’s parliament office in Dhaka on Tuesday (Jun 18). PIDPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina has 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 parliament office in Dhaka on Tuesday (Jun 18).
“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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