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E-AGRICULTURE-WORKSHOP (with picture)
Workshop on ‘Climate change, e-agriculture’ held in Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI, June 27, 2019 (BSS) – A daylong workshop was held here
yesterday amidst discussing and devising ways and means of protecting the
agriculture from adverse impact of climate change after the best uses of
modern information and communication technologies.
Agriculture Information Service (AIS) organized the workshop on ‘Climate
Change and e-agriculture’ at conference hall of Additional Director of
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE).
‘Agriculture Information Service Modernization and Digital Agriculture
Information and Communication Strengthening Project’ supported the programme.
Chaired by DAE Additional Director Dev Dulal Dhali, the workshop was
addressed, among others, by Deputy Directors Joynal Abedeen, Shamsul Haque,
Monzurul Huda, Sahir Uddin and Subrata Sarker as resource persons.
In three technical sessions, Senior Scientific Officer of Soil Resource
Development Institution Dr Nurul Islam, Executive Director of Probha Abu
Musha and Regional Agriculture Information Officer Abdullah Hil Kafi
presented three papers on ‘Climate Change Impacts on Land Degradation and
Soil properties of Barind region’, ‘Different crop management practices’, and
‘e-agriculture for agriculture development’ respectively.
The workshop was told that the present farmers can avail any
agriculture-related information after making a call at helpline number 16123
as currently it has been delivering information about agriculture, livestock
and fisheries through mobile operators free of cost.
Climate change has become a major threat and challenge to agriculture
sector. If the farmer wants to increase agriculture productions they have to
follow adaption method to mitigate the effect of climate change.
Taking part in open discussion, more than 50 agriculture related
officers including three farmers from four districts identified the existing
problems being faced by the agriculture sector and put forward a set of
recommendations on how to solve those effectively.
Besides, the regional AIS intend to make documentation, publication and
filler based on the suggestions and recommendations collected from the
workshop for welfare of the farmers in general. The documentation and
publication will play important role towards disseminating the modern
agriculture information to the grassroots farmers.
BSS/AH/FI/ 1125 hrs