Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC), Dhaka | May 17, 2026 On May 17, the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC) hosted the 10th meeting of the CGIAR Advisory Committee (CAC) — a biannual forum where international agricultural research centers align their work with national priorities. Hosted by the CGIAR Science Program on Scaling for Impact (S4I), […]
Farm growth slows down
The growth of the country's farm sector has slowed down over the last five years and an expert from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) attributed this largely to the fall in rice production growth. The sector registered a yearly growth of 2.3 percent in 2012-16, down from 4.7 percent in 2007-11. In the […]