DHAKA, Jan 24, 2022 (BSS) - Agriculture Minister Dr M Abdur Razzak

today called for spreading newly invented technologies in the field
through crush program or time bound specific action plan.

  "We need to spread the newly invented technologies in the fields to
increase cultivation," he said.

  Razzak, also the Presidium Member of the Awami League, said this as
the chief guest at a workshop on verification of technologies
developed under the BATC-NATP project at the Bangladesh Agricultural
Research Council (BARC) auditorium here, said a press release.

  "Recently many improved varieties and technologies of different
crops including paddy have been invented, so now it is possible to
plant mustard in the middle of Aman and Boro seasons, it is an
additional crop and new cropping pattern," he said.

  "Salt tolerant rice varieties have been developed, there are about
two million hectares of saline land on the coast...It is possible to
cultivate saline tolerant paddy twice a year," he added.

  Additional Secretary of the ministr M Ruhul Amin Talukder and
Chairman of BARC Sheikh Mohammad Bakhtiyar spoke the workshop.

  A total of 41 technologies were selected under the NATP project under BARC.