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US to increase food aid for Bangladesh
May 23, 2010, 12:51 GMT
Dhaka - The United States on Sunday announced enhanced food aid worth about 44 million US dollars for Bangladesh this year, a 20- per-cent hike from the previous year, an official said.
'We will be providing Bangladesh with 220 million US dollars for food aid for the next five years,' the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director Denise Rollins told a press conference in Dhaka.
In the past years Bangladesh received US food aid worth between 30 and 35 million US dollars.
Rollins said that apart from the food assistance, Bangladesh would also receive US assistance for increasing agricultural productivity from the US president's 'Feed the Future Initiative' as the south Asian country of 156 million population was losing substantial amounts of agricultural land every year.
With nearly 40 per cent of the total population still facing malnutrition, Bangladesh is one of the 20 potential countries due to receive assistance from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Trust Fund to be managed by the World Bank, she said.
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