Bangladesh’s economy is heavily dependent on agriculture. According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, agriculture, forestry and fishing contributed 11.2 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product in 2022/23. The sector is characterised by subsistence production systems, largely dominated by small and marginal farmers.
In May 2024, the Commonwealth Secretariat in collaboration with a2i and other partners convened a multi-stakeholder national dialogue in Dhaka that made recommendations on how to put in place an enabling environment for collaborative interventions among institutions engaged in agricultural data management, so they can design, establish and start to implement a National Agricultural Data Infrastructure (NAgDI) in Bangladesh.
