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BARI-WORKSHOP-EXPERTS
Eat fruits daily for nutrition: experts
JAMALPUR, October 18, 2018 (BSS) – Experts at a workshop today said
Bangladesh has already achieved self sufficiency in food grain production,
but its people should change their food habit and eat fruits daily for
nutrition.
They came up with the observation at a day-long workshop on
‘dissemination of promising horticultural technology of BARI varieties and
agro-techniques’ held at the conference room of Regional Agriculture Research
Station (RARS) here.
RARS organised the workshop under the project of ‘strengthening research
on horticulture crops and dissemination of horticultural and field crop
technology at Charland areas’.
Chaired by BARS chief scientific officer Dr Md Abdul Malek, the workshop
was addressed, among others, by BARI chief scientific officer Dr Md Azmat
Ullah, additional director of DAE (Mymenshingh) Md Asadullah and project
director Dr Md Abu Taher.
A total of 100 people, including deputy directors of DAE, Horticulture
and BADC, upazila agriculture officers of DAE, scientific officers of RARS,
and NGO representatives of Jamalpur, Sherpur, Mymenshingh and Netrokona
districts, took part in the workshop.
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