Pest infestation, especially invasion of 'shoot borer', is much lower in Bt brinjal than other traditional varieties, a latest study showed. Bt brinjal is the first genetically modified (GM) crop ever developed in Bangladesh. Leaf-eating beetles were found 47.1 per cent of plants in case of Bt brinjal when it was 63.7 per cent for […]
Policy Workshop: Agricultural Transformation in Bangladesh
On March 6, 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture and the USAID-funded Policy Research and Strategy Support Program (PRSSP), implemented by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), jointly organized a half-day policy workshop to disseminate research-based evidence from the “Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL)” project, and the Bt brinjal impact assessment. The event attracted […]
Ministry Organizes Bt Brinjal Monitoring Training
The Ministry of Agriculture is preparing to implement the Bt brinjal impact assessment study. On 6 August 2017, the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), Agricultural Policy Support Unit (APSU), and Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) organized a day-long training of trainers at BARI-Gazipur for 17 senior agriculture extension officials (Upazila Agriculture Officers and Additional Agriculture […]
Bt Brinjal Census Training
Bangladesh is the first South Asian country to approve commercial cultivation of a genetically modified food crop: brinjal (eggplant). Although advancements in agricultural biotechnology like Bt brinjal could accelerate food production to meet the demand of Bangladesh’s growing population, farmers’ and consumers’ food safety remains a top priority. To this end, the Ministry of Agriculture […]
High Cost, Market Risk, Poor Distribution Among Hurdles
In Bangladesh, what are the challenges of diversifying crops in a rice-centric economy?