BARI organises workshop

Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) organised the "Internal Research Review & Planning Workshop-2023" for evaluating all the research programmes undertaken in 2022-2023 and formulating the research programme for 2023-2024 at the institute's Kazi Badruddoza Auditorium in Gazipur yesterday.

Wahida Akter, secretary to the ministry of agriculture, inaugurated the workshop, said a press release.

BARI is currently conducting research activities on 211 crops. A total of 1,290 technologies, including 650 high yielding, disease resistant and various adverse environment resistant varieties, and 640 other production technologies have been developed by the institute.

Debasish Sarker, director general of BARI, presided over the inaugural ceremony, where Abdullah Sazzad, chairman of Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation, Sheikh Mohammad Bokhtiar, executive chairman of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Badal Chandra Biswas, director general of the Directorate of Agricultural Extension, Md Shahjahan Kabir, director general of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Mirza Mofazzal Islam, director general of Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture, and Mahmudul Hasan, director general of National Agriculture Training Academy, were present.