Shrimp is one of the major export earning of Bangladesh. But unfortunately ,the export of shrimp has gone down in recent years due to some unscrupulous exporters who have resorted to unfair means by exporting unhygienic product. The European Union has taken serious view of it and threatened to stop importing shrimp from Bangladesh if the standard and quality is not improved. As such ,Gov. has started monitoring the alleged shrimp exporters and a govt. team visited these factories in Sirajgonj . Write a report on visit of a high level Govt. officials to examine six frozen shrimp factories in Sirajgonj.

A report on high level visit of shrimp factories in sirajgonj

Our Correspondent :

Sirajgonj ,28^th March ,2018 :

A three member high level team of the government visited six frozen factories in Sirajgonj recently. These export oriented factories were allegedly exporting processed frozen shrimps which were unhygienic and containing, sources said.

The six shrimp processing factories visited by the team are National Sea Foods, Nator Sea Foods, Akhi Fish processing Factory, Liza Fish and  Choyti  Industries Ltd, Bagerhat Frozen foods and Southern Sea Foods Ltd, said a source of Bangladesh Frozen Food Exporters Association (BFFEA). The team will submit a report to the government shortly , the sources added.

Led by a senior scientific officer of the Directorate of Fisheries, Sujon Ahmed , the team also included inspector Sultan Mahmud and Assistant Director Hasib Rahman .

The representative from BFFEA in a statement said that any lapses in processing of frozen shrimp in future will be dealt severely including cancellation of export license.