Facilitating Smallholder Farmers’ Market Access
In the OIC Member Countries
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grow a wide range of minor horticultural and vegetable crops. Livestock—dairy cattle,
goats, and poultry—and aquaculture play very important roles in Bangladeshi farming
systems as well, providing employment, cash, and improved nutrition, particularly for
landless households and female farmers.
Demand and market size
Rice continues to dominate
the Bangladeshi diet, but as
incomes and urbanization
increase, the composition
of domestic food demand is
shifting away from food
grains and toward high-
value agricultural products,
including vegetable oils,
vegetables, potatoes, fish,
meat, and dairy products.
Between 1980 and 2009,
per capita consumption of
cereals increased by 13
percent, while per capita
calorie consumption from
vegetable oils, vegetables,
and fish more than doubled
. Cereals, which
provided 83 percent of
calories consumed in 1980,
provided 78 percent in
2009. The growing
domestic demand for high-
value agricultural products,
which tend to be relatively
labor intensive to produce,
provides significant
opportunities for greater
rural employment and
incomes.
The changing composition
of production reflects these
changing dietary patterns.
compares the top
sources of farm revenue in
107 World Bank (2010a).
FIGURE 29: CHANGE IN PER CAPITA CALORIE CONSUMPTION
BETWEEN 1980 AND 2009
Source: FAOSTAT (FAO 2014).
FIGURE 30: TOP SOURCES OF FARM REVENUE IN BANGLADESH,
1990–92 AND 2010–12
Source: FAOSTAT (FAO 2014).