Reaz Ahmad

With farmers ready to reap rice in the year's biggest rice season -- Boro -- in a week amidst concern over poor market price,

The government has rejected two shipments of Russian wheat, weighing 1,00,000 tonnes in total, on the grounds of quality issues.

BANGLADESH will have to enhance farm productivity by blending modern technologies, hybrid seeds and world-class crop protection solutions in the face of depleting farmlands and rising population, an expert said.

Climate change is a reality and so is the farming sector's resilience to it in Bangladesh.

Food security exists when all people, at all times, have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to maintain healthy and

Bangladeshi scientists have successfully field-tested a genetically modified (GM) potato resistant to late blight, one of the most devastating plant diseases caused by fungal attack. After the last trial is over in February, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) will approach regulators for approval of the RB (blight resistant) gene-infused potato.

Unlike its South Asian neighbours India and Pakistan, Bangladesh is on course to meet the global targets for reducing stunting among children under five.

The government yesterday rejected 19,700 tonnes of wheat imported from France for having too much of damaged kernels, and asked the supplier to take back the grains worth Tk 40 crore.

Brac has gone beyond the national boundary to take the benefits of its programmes and innovations in farm sector to other countries of the world.

Genomes of 186 Bangladeshi rice varieties have been sequenced in Beijing Genomics Institute, China as part of a global collaborative project, opening up new opportunities for varietal developments.

Number of undernourished people in Bangladesh has remained almost static in recent years despite the country's commendable improvement in food security status since 1990.

Imagine growing up in a place where, as a girl child, you are more likely to get married than go to secondary schools. That is the sad reality for girls in 26 countries, including Bangladesh.

Bangladeshi rice scientists are all set to conduct field tests of the world's first vitamin A-enriched rice, popularly known as Golden Rice, before taking the variety to production phase. The success in vitamin A-rich rice comes in quick succession of the world's first three zinc-rich rice varieties that Bangladesh released over the last couple of years.

For Mintu Dey artistic recreation of our country's birth history is a passionate dream.

This year's public sector wheat import has hit a snag over quality issues.

All the ministries and divisions of the government will have to sign annual performance agreements (APAs) with their subordinate departments and organisations by October 15 to ensure better public service and more accountability, said cabinet division sources.

Projecting its success in achieving key Millennium Development Goals (MDG), Bangladesh will announce its full commitment to meet the new targets to be set up by the United Nations in its current general assembly (UNGA).

Bangladeshi scientists have developed four transgenic rice varieties capable of production in high soil salinity, far better than the ones now available in the market that were derived from conventional breeding.

Projecting Bangladesh as a focal country, a global initiative would be launched in the United States in November to end hunger and undernutrition by 2025.

Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (Brri) has successfully developed a second breed of zinc-rich rice which grows faster, gives better yield and is of better nutritional values than its predecessor.