Disseminating agri-info thru\\\' mass media stressed

RANGPUR, Mar 8 (BSS): Speakers at a training course here have asked the concerned officials for attaining skills in preparing news stories, features and press releases on agricultural information for disseminating those through mass media.

Effective and quicker dissemination of the latest agricultural information among the farmers utilising the print, electronic, online and community media and Information Communication Technology could help increasing crop production to ensure national food security, they said.

They were addressing concluding session of a 3-day training course on "Preparation of Effective Content for Agricultural Information Dissemination through Mass Media" at Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) training room on Friday afternoon.

The Intensification of Agriculture Information Service (IAIS) in 10 Agriculture Regions Project of the Agriculture Information Service under the Agriculture Ministry organised the training course.

Thirty officials of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Pisciculture and Animal Resources Departments, Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation, Soil Resources Development Institute and other government and non-government organisations participated.