Popularizing stress tolerant seed verities among the farmers was crucial to make the national agricultural growth sustainable, observed policymakers and researchers on Wednesday. They highlighted the need for adopting new technologies of seed development in accordance with the constraints and requirements of farmers. Addressing a workshop on formulating policy for developing seed sector in Bangladesh, […]
Agricultural growth has slowed in five years
Despite Bangladesh predicts attaining food autarky, unfortunately agricultural growth has slowed down in five years. Rice production slowed down in the past 10 years, says leading agronomist of the country. Agricultural growth has declined mainly due to decrease of growth in rice production, said Dr Akhter Ahmed, Country Representative of Interna-tional Food Policy Research Institute […]
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 […]
ANGeL Baseline Seminar
IFPRI successfully brings together stakeholders for key baseline findings.
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