U N Hopeful On Food Supply In Bangladesh
The FAO reports Bangladesh could be self sufficient in food in five years thanks to a food-for-work program begun in 1975. Two million workers are involved earning six pounds of wheat per ton moved while 1509 miles of canals and 1850 miles of embankments have been built to control monsoon floods and enable irrigation.
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Ichael Duffy
Associated Press
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U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
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