RANGPUR, May 14 (BSS): Enhanced cultivation of zinc-enriched rice ensures food and nutrition security preventing deficiency of zinc, iron and vitamin-A for normal growth of the children and increasing disease resistant capacity, experts said today.
They were addressing a farmers' field day organised by RDRS Bangladesh, a leading NGO, to demonstrate farming results, technologies and harvesting high zinc enriched variety BRRI dhan64 rice in village Dhorepara under Sadar upazila in Nilphamari.
The NGO has been expanding farming technology, seed production, processing and storing of zinc-enriched BRRI dhan 64 and BRRI dhan 62 rice at 200 exhibition plots in Rangpur, Nilphamari, Dinajpur and Gaibandha under The HarvestPlus Challenge Programme.
The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) have been coordinating the technology dissemination process for ensuring seed production, processing and storing of the high zinc rice.
Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture (DAE) for Nilphamari Golam Mohammad Idris attended the occasion and inaugurated harvest of the high yielding zinc-enriched BRRI dhan64 rice at the field of farmer Abdus Sattar as the chief guest.
Nilphamari Sadar Upazila Agriculture Officer Keramat Ali attended the ceremony as the special guest. Sub-Assistant Agriculture Officer Rashidul Islam, Chairman of Kundupukur Union Federation Mominur Islam, Agriculture Officer of RDRS Bangladesh for Nilphamari Dilip Kumar Roy, Research Assistant of Krishi Gobeshona Foundation (KGF) Enamul Haque addressed.
Experts for more cultivation of zinc-enriched rice
FE Team | Published: May 15, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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