Alternative energy resource
I totally agree with Mr. Syed Noor Hossain on the production and use of ethanol as a supplement to petroleum and CNG. Since the demand on our limited resource of natural gas is getting higher, it is a requirement for the energy management authorities to consider the bright possibility of producing ethanol as an automobile fuel from sugarcane in a fertile country like Bangladesh. You see we have a need, we have the resources and we have the means and the talent. The only thing remaining is to take action. I think considering such possibilities the agriculture authorities should give importance to encouraging farmers to grow sugarcane plentifully, as happened in the case of potato yield in the past five to ten years.
We are blessed with a country whose soil can grow multi-seasonal crops and we should never neglect the possibilities of farming and agriculture to meet our needs. Other countries like the Netherlands are also like us, it was even in more adverse conditions than us in the past. But when we look at them currently their farming products are being distributed all over the EU members and other non EU countries.
Bangladesh can also use its agriculture and fulfil its own needs, if not international demand. I am saying all these in the face of a, excuse me, "client-logic" mentality long prevailing in our country. We should never underestimate the local possibilities in the way of development.
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