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Article: Climate change impact: Unplanned shrimp cultivation threatens environment.
- Article from:
- The New Nation (Dhaka, India)
- Article date:
- May 25, 2009
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Dhaka, May 25 -- In view of the economic recession, particularly in the USA and European countries, the prices of frozen food in the international markets has fallen up to 40 to 45 percent posing a threat to the industry in Bangladesh.
"A red alert hovers over the frozen foods industry," said Sheikh Abdul Baki, Vice President of Bangladesh Frozen Foods Exporters' Association (BFFEA).
He referred that export earning from frozen food recorded a fall by 18 percent till March 15 this year against the amount of Tk 3667 crore that Bangladesh earned during the same period last year.
Abdul Baki said about one and a half crores people depend on shrimp ...