Salt Industry is established for producing salt from saline water of the sea in the coastal areas of Bangladesh especially in Chattogram and Cox's Bazar region. Salt is produced seasonally from December to Mid of May. Recently salt cultivation has also started in the coastal belts of Khulna and Satkhira.
The Government has decided on 5th July 2017 to again temporarily suspend the prohibition set on the import of salt in the country's import policy and authorize the import of 500 K metric tons of crude salt in order to meet the domestic demand. Estimates made by the ministry of Industries stated that demand for salt in the Country this year stands at 1.58 million tons in 2019. Present salt production is 1.36 million tons, a deficit of demand was about 0.21 million tons during the period. It pushed up the market price of local salt to TK 40.0 per KG. The government makes the decision in order to meet the demand-supply gap by importing a deficit amount of salt in the year. In this way government also controls the market inflation of the goods.
Traditionally, salt was produced by vaporizing seawater by fire heat or sunlight. From 2000-2001 salt was produced in a different way known as the polythene process, in which salt can be produced 17.25 metric ton per acre. While initiating a new cultivation method to produce salt, it can help to produce near about 21.00 metric tons of standard quality salt than traditional salt production per acre.
Bangladesh's available assessed yearly prerequisite is around 2.00 million Metric tons which are expanding at a pace of 5% for each year with the expanding of populace and extension of businesses where salt is required as crude materials, for example, tannery, fishery and horticulture part, and sub-segments Chemical ventures and so forth. The crude materials – crude or foul salt specifically produced by using brackish water is accessible in the nation from indigenous sources at some specific areas in the southernmost locale of Bangladesh: Cox’s Bazar – containing the world’s longest 117 km uninterrupted sea beach. In spite of the fact that Bangladesh's aggregate length of the seaside line is more than one thousand km – from the Indian outskirt in the eastern part (Khulna) toward the south-east part bordering Myanmar. But due to some scientific reason, the raw salt production process is suitable in the lone district area of Cox’s Bazar as economic viability to make raw salt depends on the chemical composition and salinity of brine – seawater: the minimum level is to be 2.50% which is available only in some selected areas on the coastline of Cox’s Bazar. Salinity in brine in the rest of the country’s coastline contains below this minimum 2.50% mark: around 1.70% only.
With the increase of population, cattle heads, and growers of industries, the demand for salt is also showing a rising trend. To meet the growing demands of salt and to achieve self-sufficiency in salt production.
During the surveillance period, a huge amount of crude salt imported from India and Myanmar for meeting up the shortage of our local production and adjusting salt price at a sustainable level. Since import crude slat price lower than local procured crude salt.
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