RANGPUR, Mar 16, 2019 (BSS) – Director general of the Department of
Agriculture Extension (DAE) Agriculturist Mir Nurul Alam has directed
agriculturists to adopt newer technologies for doubling the country’s food
production facing the growing challenges.
“To attain the goal, we have to continue evolving newer high yielding crop
varieties and cultivate those to meet food demand of growing population by
increasing crop intensity side by side with protecting soil health and
adapting to climate change,” he said.
The DAE chief said this at a workshop on ‘Safe Food Production by Using
Safe Pesticides’ held in the conference room of the Department of Agriculture
Marketing in the city on Friday as the chief guest, a press release said
today.
The Rangpur Regional Office of the DAE organised the workshop participated
by all deputy directors, district training officers, additional deputy
directors, upazila agriculture officers and agriculture extension OFFICERS of
the DAE from all eight districts in Rangpur division.
The DAE chief directed field level agriculture extension officials for
reaching newly evolved and latest agriculture technologies and crop varieties
to farmers to further boost production of safe food for attaining
sustainability in the agriculture sector.
He suggested the farmers for enhancing production of safe food by reducing
use of pesticides to the reasonable level to improve soil health and make the
government’s plan of doubling the country’s food production successful.
Earlier, the DAE chief visited Burirhat Horticulture Centre in Rangpur and
exchanged views with officials there and directed them for producing quality
saplings of high yielding varieties of fruits, vegetables and spicy crops.
He also visited dissemination of agricultural technologies and farm
activities at different places in Rangpur and Gaibandha districts and
exchanged views with local farmers and field level agriculture extension
officials.