National Agriculture Policy, 2013.

The main objective of the National Agriculture Policy is to ensure food and nutrition security for all, improve rural livelihoods through increased crop production with higher productivity and create employment opportunities through diversification of agricultural activities. The Specific objectives of this Policy are: Ensure sustainable and profitable agricultural production system; Develop and disseminate improved crop varieties and sustainable production technologies through research and training: Increase productivity and generate income and employment by transferring appropriate technologies and improving inputs management; Promote and continue competitiveness of agriculture through its commercialization: Promote effective initiatives to establish a self-reliant and sustainable agriculture that is adaptable to climate change and responsive to farmers' need; Ensure fair price of agricultural commodities along with improved marketing; Encourage quality production of agricultural products to meet the demands of international markets and increase the export opportunity; Create opportunity for agricultural product processing and establish agro-based industries; and Diversify agriculture to meet the nutritional demand of people and encourage production of more nutritious crops (pag. 4).
The government will continue and strengthen support for major crops production related to food security and livelihood improvement. In addition, measures will be taken to promote high value crops for enhancement of farmers' income and boost of agricultural export; Measures will be taken to increase cropping intensity, and to bring fallow land under cultivation; Diversification of crop will be pursued to augment food and nutrition security; The government will monitor supply, availability and distribution of inputs (seed, fertilizer, pesticides, irrigation, etc.) to farmers through extension (DAE) and other inputs service providers and will also ensure effective monitoring for maintaining the quality of inputs supplied by both public and private organizations (pags. 12 and 13).
The government will undertake agricultural rehabilitation programmes immediately after the occurrence of natural calamities to compensate crop damage; Measures will be taken to protect crops in the coastal, haor, beel and char areas keeping harmony with other sub-sectors' production; Introduction of crop insurance programme will be considered; and "Agricultural Disaster Response Fund" will be created to start post disaster rehabilitation programme immediately after a disaster. The government will promote development of modem eco-friendly technology and infrastructure for a safe and sustainable future; Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Integrated Crop Management (ICM) will be promoted for conservation of biodiversity and sustainable land and water management; and Measures will be taken to restrict the use of agricultural land for non agricultural purposes (pag. 14).