In Bangladesh, due to increased population, thousands of acres of agricultural land are lost. This is quite logical because with the increase in population, all the basic demands like food, housing and clothing increase creating pressure on employment. To cope up with the increasing pressure for employment, industrialization is occurring leading to loss of agricultural land and forest. To supply large amount of fish to the increased population, increased amount of fish is caught leading to decrease in fish population in the rivers sharply nowadays. The saying ?Bangali with fist and nice? has become a fairy tale.

In 1991-92, the total food production in Bangladesh was about 19.32 million metric ton which raised to 30 million metric ton in 2007-2008. In 2010-11, it reached 40 million metric ton. In 20 years, food production has been doubled, however, in every year we are facing food deficiency, and we are to import 3 million metric tons of food grain every year. And for that we have to spend a substantial amount of foreign currency hampering our economy. The population in 1991-1992 was about 100 million and at present, it is more than 150 million. If the population growth were much less, Bangladesh could be self sufficient in food grain production.

Large amount of foreign currency could be saved and it might be utilized for infrastructure development. We all need to be careful and also have to make people aware of controlling our population growth.