Coordinated efforts needed to face climate challenges

SYLHET, May 23. Agriculture Minister Mohammed Abdus Shahid has said that since Bangladesh is one of the countries to be hit and affected badly by the climate change impacts, the academics, researchers and scientists should have coordinated efforts to face the emerging challenges.
Agriculture is now a challenging sector, which is why the government has already attached highest importance to it, the minister viewed.
"The present government has been giving increased subsidies on fertilisers, seed etc. for the farmers," he added.
The agriculture minister was addressing as the chief guest the inaugural session of an international conference on 'Advanced agriculture research' at a convention centre in Sylhet city on Thursday morning.
The Sylhet Agricultural University Research System (SAURES) organised the two-day conference.
The event's chief patron, SAU Vice-Chancellor Professor Jamal Uddin Bhuiyan, also addressed it while SAURES Director Prof Sofiuddin Bhuiyan chaired the inaugural session.
Director General of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI) Professor Debashish Sarker, Korea's disease and resistance agency official Dr Lee Hi, India's Bidhan Chandra Roy University's ex-VC Professor Manas Mohan Audhikar and SAURES Additional Director Dr Mahmudul Islam also addressed it.
About 300 scientific articles will be presented at the event while about 600 academics from 45 various institutions and organisations at home and abroad including USA, Japan, China, Australia, Italy, India, Pakistan and Korea will attend it.
As many as eight sessions will be held during the event on agriculture research which will see submission of 300 research papers.

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