Researchers make colorful rice

Researchers make colorful rice

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This image released by Taiwan's Hualien Agricultural Improvement Station shows four different colors of rice. The colorful grain is not just pleasant for the eye, but contains additional nutrients as the colors come from natural foods, not dyes, researchers say.

World Agricultural Forum

Vision and Mission of the

World Agricultural Forum:

 The Vision of the WAF is to empower agriculture to feed every

man, woman and child.

 The Mission of the WAF is to catalyse the development of

action plans that meet the world's growing need for food, fiber, fuel

and water.

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Agricultural Scientist কৃষিবিদ Krishibid

February 13 as Krishibid Day every year from now  ১৩ ই ফেব্রুয়ারী কৃষিবিদ দিবস

1. Bangladesh is an agricultural economy.Agriculture supports its major income,employment and vital activities.Agriculturists who are graduates from agricultural universities or faculties play major role in the development of Bangladesh.The national association of agricultural graduates,Krishibid Institution,Bangladesh has organized various activities to review the achievements of the agricultural graduates and strengthen the contributions of the graduates for the development of Bangladesh.All agricultural agencies of Bangladesh are observing this day and taking vow for development Bangladesh.Graduates working in various government and non -government agencies,universities and private sectors are taking part in the festivites of the day.
2.  The agricultural sector of Bangladesh is composed of crops,livestock,fisheries and forestry.Ministries of Agriculture,Livestock,Fisheries and Forestry of the government administration are mainly manned by the agricultural graduates.Besides,many banks,specialised agencies and NGOs hire Agricultural graduates for their programmes.
3.  The website of Krishibid Institution,Bangladesh.It reflects the activities of the agriculturist community of Bangladesh.You are invited to visit the website and see the achievements of the Agriculturists working in various organizations of Bangladesh.

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জৈব কৃষি কৃষিবিদ organic agriculture

welcome all contributions relevant for organic farming systems

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Organic agriculture has grown to a sector with profound impact on the societal and agricultural development. Hence, we want to utilize the upcoming seminar to reveal how organic research has contributed, or may contribute to change the many and serious challenges that we face to protect our environment and to ensure a satisfactory living for all. Concurrently, the needs for improvement in practical farming systems, both to support the farmers and to further develop organic farming in a sustainable direction, must be emphasized.

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‘India ready to help Bangladesh in agriculture’

New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee has said that India would be happy to extend assistance to Bangladesh in the field of agriculture.

He conveyed this to visiting Bangladesh Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury who called on him at Rashtrapati Bhavan .

Begum Matia Chowdhury visited  India to explore cooperation in the field of agriculture.

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Greatest Scientist Dr.Maksudul Alam

Dr. Maqsudul Alam discovering the sequence of the fungus that destroy our jute.

The fungus – macrophomina phaseolina- is responsible for damaging jute and 500 more crops. 30% of the jute in our country are destroyed by this fungus causing loss of Tk. 4000 crore per year. By applying this gene code of fungus and jute code that he discovered 2 years back, new varieties of jute can be developed that will be finer in form and more resistant to fungus.
The project was financed by Bangladesh Government. The news was disclosed by the PM in the Parliament. The article was published in BMC Genomics on 17 September 2012. 17 scientists of different labs worked in the team. Final sequence of fungus gene was unveiled in the BARI laboratory, Dhaka.
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U.S. Joint Initiatives in Modern Agric Technology in Bangladesh

U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan Mozina has expressed interest to undertake joint initiatives with Bangladesh Agricultural University to expedite agricultural development through sharing of modern technologies. During his visit and meeting with high officials on July 17, 2012, he emphasized the need for sustained crop production by harnessing emerging new avenues like biotechnology.
Mozina also expressed his government's desire to cooperate in establishing a gene bank, semen bank and cryopreservation system of crops, fish and animal. He noted that the existing Germplasm Centre, Central Lab and Agricultural Museum at BAU was satisfactory. BAU, according to the Ambassador has significant contributed to agricultural development, food sufficiency and poverty alleviation and that the U.S. would help to further enhance its activities.
Dr. Md Rafiqul Hoque, BAU Vice Chancellor, and local state administrators gave their commitments to meet the goal of making the university a center of excellence.

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