Dhaka, Sept. 17 -- With zero investment and no planning, Bangladesh is far from being ready to enter the globally thriving semiconductor industry, which is projected to generate $1 trillion in revenue in 2033.

Successive governments, including the incumbent one, aimed at building the industry by applying only rhetoric, failing to attract any investment to the industry that has been on an expansion spree in Asia for some time now.

The revenue of $8 million that Bangladesh generated in the last financial year was the fruit of the hard work of freelancers and private information technology firms.

Government incentives proved crucial to the industry's growth in Asian countries, where nations offered tax waivers, land to the investors and e...