BSS, Dhaka
The European Commission is providing a grant of Euro 33.6 million (Taka about 336 crore) in assistance to Bangladesh to expand the country’s food security support for the next five years.
An agreement to this effect was signed yesterday by ERD Secretary Aminul Islam Bhuiyan and Head of the delegation of European Commission to Bangladesh Ambassador Dr. Stefan Frowein, an EC press release said.
The overall objective of the Food Security Programme 2006 is to reduce extreme poverty and malnutrition in Bangladesh by improving the socio-economic condition of the very poor and by managing and improving food security in an effective way. [Read more]