Proper agri infomation could help raise output: Experts

FE Team | Published: April 28, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

RAJSHAHI, Apr 27 (BSS): The officials concerned have been advised to attain skills in computer application and preparing news stories and features on agricultural information for disseminating those through mass media.
Speakers made the suggestion while speaking at the closing session of a three-day training workshop on "Use and Application of Information and Communication Technology in Agriculture" here today.
Effective and quick dissemination of the latest agricultural information among the farmers utilising the print, electronic, online and community media and ICT (information and communication technology) could help to increase crop production, they observed.
The Introduction of Digital Agriculture Information and Development of Rural Livelihood through Agriculture and Information and Communication Service Centre Project of the Agriculture Information Service (AIS) under the Agriculture Ministry organised the course.
More than 30 sub-assistant agriculture officers and members of Agriculture Information Service Centre from Pabna and Bogra districts took part in the training.
Additional Director-in-Charge of the Department of Agriculture Extension Sazder Rahman and Deputy Director Hazrat Ali addressed the session as the chief and the special guests respectively with Regional Director of AIS Amirul Islam in the chair.
The speakers expressed the opinion that an effective and rapid dissemination of the latest agricultural information to the farmers through newspapers, television, and community radio and information communication technology will help farmers to produce bumper yields and ensure national food security.
They stressed the need for enhancing knowledge and expertise of the agriculture related officers on 'e-Agriculture' and capacity building for reaching necessary information at the farmers' doorsteps utilising the digitised ICT facilities.
They said farmers have been getting necessary information on agriculture from the Union Digital Centres set up under the UNDP-assisted (Access to Information) a2i Programme of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
The farmers would easily get tremendous benefits from 'e-Agriculture' like proper managements of crops, pesticides, crop diseases, nutrition of crop plants, seed sowing periods, homestead and roof gardening, animal husbandry at their doorsteps, they added.