Dhaka, June 30 -- Bangladesh leaves 56 per cent of agricultural land below productivity trajectory while only 1.2 per cent catches up desired level of production with the highest output, although the country meets food deficit with imports.

An official survey shows such stark paradox in farmland productivity and food insecurity in many agro-households across the country.

The country's 44.37 per cent of farmlands are at the desired and acceptable level of productivity while 55.63 per cent are still under unsustainable level in terms of their annual output value per hectare, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) survey divulges.

The report on its findings, published Monday, further shows the agricultural lands in the urban areas are ...