The government had announced a 20 percent incentive on rice export and a Tk 3,000 crore subsidy for farmers to buy agro tools. It had also doubled duties on rice import and nearly tripled its paddy procurement from farmers. But none of these measures could push paddy prices up in the last three months. Boro […]
ANGeL Scale-Up Meeting
On 13 October 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture hosted a meeting to discuss scaling up the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project nationally, which was chaired by the Secretary of Agriculture Mr. Md. Nasiruzzaman. The meeting provided an overview of the ANGeL project, plans to conduct a baseline survey to measure progress national scale-up, […]
Merit of Bt Brinjal Technology
Abdul Bayes | October 05, 2019 | The drivers of the current development of Bangladesh are many and they are diverse too. Ranking the drivers on their strengths may not be a simple exercise as hosts of multi-co-linearity problems would complicate the attempt. But apparently agricultural growth, especially of food grains could be touted as […]
IFPRI Webinar: Ghana’s Agricultural and Economic Transformation
What lessons can Ghana's agricultural and economic transformation provide for Bangladesh? On Wednesday, 9 October from 12:15-1:45pm EDT (10:15-11:45pm Dhaka time), IFPRI warmly invites you to join a webinar where we examine the past four decades of Ghana's economy and agriculture sector, and key insights into harnessing agriculture's potential for transformation. Stay tuned for forthcoming […]
NEW RESEARCH: Impacts of Safety Net Transfers on Child Nutrition
From 2012 to 2014, IFPRI designed and evaluated a randomized controlled trial, the Transfer Modality Research Initiative (TMRI), which sought to generate definitive evidence on which form of safety net transfer–cash or food–works best for the ultra poor in rural Bangladesh and whether impacts of these transfers change when linked to nutrition behavior change communication […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 35
- 36
- 37
- 38
- 39
- …
- 68
- Next Page »