Prime Minister’s Private Industry and Investment Adviser Salman F. Rahman urged Japanese businessmen to invest in IT, agriculture, tourism and health sectors in Bangladesh. He urged the Japanese business delegation visiting Dhaka.
The call was made at a function organized at the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) conference hall on Thursday (October 19). Business representatives from 32 Japanese organizations were present.
At the event, Japanese businessmen expressed their interest in investing in 6 sectors including Manikganj Economic Zone, River Tourism, Lakshmipur Economic Zone and Bhola Gas Field to Salman F Rahman. In addition, Kobe (a city in Japan) expressed interest in meat exports, investment in ongoing and new infrastructure development.
Salman F. Rahman said that Japan and Bangladesh have good relations. Japanese businessmen need to invest here. Japan is working on many projects with JICA. They have invested in many mega projects. Our relations with Japan are good and close. We want this relationship to be closer. You have come, through this our relationship will be closer. Business will increase.
He said, despite the excess population, we have made a lot of progress in agriculture. There is great potential in agriculture, food processing sector. Japan has good agriculture technology. Japanese companies can connect with our private companies.
The Prime Minister’s Private Industry and Investment Adviser also said that people’s purchasing power is increasing. We are located between India and China. We get tariff benefits for exporting products to these two countries. In that case China is also the big market of Bangladesh. India also has a large market potential.
At this time, Salman F. Rahman urged Japanese businessmen to invest in tourism, IT and health sectors. He also said that Japanese businessmen can use an economic zone in Raujan in Chittagong if they want.
