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MEETING-AGRICULTURE-TECHNOLOGY (with picture)
Promoting agro technology to boost production stressed
RAJSHAHI, July 16, 2018 (BSS) – Agricultural experts at a discussion here
stressed promoting of agro-technology to boost production for meeting the
gradual demand in the wake of increasing population.
They observed that cropping intensity can be increased to 250 percent even
400 percent from the existing 200 percent through reducing the existing time
gap between the two crops after the best uses of modern technologies of
agriculture.
To this end, they urged all the officials and others concerned including
the scientists and farmers to put their level best efforts and work together
as the present government is very much positive in this regard.
The observation came at the regional meeting of agriculture technology
extension coordination committee here yesterday. Additional Director Office
of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) organized the meeting at its
conference hall.
The meeting discussed and devised ways and means elaborately on making the
forthcoming transplanted aman farming in Kharif-2 season a total success.
More than 40 officials concerned from DAE, Barind Multipurpose Development
Authority (BMDA), Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI),
Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), Seed Certification Agency (SCA),
Soil Resource Development Institution (SRDI) and Bangladesh Agriculture
Development Corporation (BADC) attended the meeting.
Chaired by Additional Director of DAE SM Mustafizur Rahman, the meeting was
addressed, among others, by its Deputy Directors Joynal Abedeen, Dev Dulal
Dhali, Monojit Kumar Mallik and Rafiqul Islam, SCA Regional Director Sirajul
Islam, BARI Principal Scientific Officer Dr Ilias Hossain, BMDA Project
Director Rafiqul Islam and BRRI Senior Scientific Officer Harunur Rashid.
Speakers said bringing agriculture under mechanization is of essence for
boosting production.
They said the present government has attained remarkable success in
agriculture sector and urged the officials concerned to put their collective
efforts to uphold the government success in this sector in the days to come.
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