Experts for adopting hi-tech to boost crop output

RANGPUR, Apr 25 (BSS): Experts at a farmers' field day have stressed for adoption of the latest technologies and mechanisation of farm activities to increase crop output for ensuring national food security under adverse climate.
The farmers have already been getting better results and earning more profits from farm activities through large-scale adoption of the latest and proven conservation agriculture (CA)-based technologies in increasing crop output at reduced costs, they said.
They were addressing the field day jointly organised by RDRS Bangladesh with Dinajpur Wheat Research Centre (WRC) for exhibiting benefits of CA-based technologies in farming wheat and maize with intercropping of other crops in village Dakshin Pirerhat under Gangachara Upazila Thursday afternoon.
The NGO has been disseminating the latest technologies among farmers and inspiring them for mechanisation of agriculture under its Sustainable & Resilient Farming System Intensification (SRFSI) Project in Dinajpur and Rangpur districts.
The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) has been extending financial assistance and International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) technical cooperation in implementing the project.
Chief Scientific Officer of Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute at Burirhat in Rangpur Dr Abdul Monnaf attended the occasion as the chief guest with local social worker Shawkat Ali in the chair.
Gangachara Upazila Agriculture Officer Abdullah Al Mamun and Senior Scientific Officer of Dinajpur WRC Akbar Hossain addressed the ceremony as the special guests.
One-hundred participants including farmers, officials of the DAE, BRAC, ACI Company, public representatives, civil society members and journalists took part in the field day moderated by Senior Agriculture Officer of SRFSI Project Anup Kumar Ghosh.