EnvironmentIn a written reply to parliament on 13 September 2023, then environment minister Md Shahab Uddin said the government aimed to raise tree cover to 25 per cent and forest cover to 16 per cent by 2030, from 22.37 and 14.1 per cent in 2015.
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury opened a tree planting programme at the Jatiya Sangsad on 17 July and urged everyone to plant more trees.
Bangladesh had 16.27 lakh metric tonnes of food grain in stock as of 24 May 2023, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told parliament.
Presenting the 2022-23 budget, the finance minister said 106 endangered forest and 240 medicinal tree species had been conserved over 13 years.
