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Please see herebelow a message from Dr. llias Hossain, a research scientist
working on   Conservation Agriculture in Bangladesh. Apologoes for
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From: Dr. Ilias Hossain <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 1:37 PM
Subject: Fwd: Farmers urged to promote modern technology for boosting yield
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Dear Respected all,

Please read the following message for your kind information. I am glad to
send this message.

Kind regards

Dr. M. Ilias Hossain

Senior Scientific Officer (Agronomy)
Regional Wheat Research Centre (RWRC)
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI)
Rajshahi, Bangladesh

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Date: Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 4:10 PM
Subject: Farmers urged to promote modern technology for boosting yield
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http://www1.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=379391&date=2013-12-28



http://www.daily-sun.com/details_Farmers-urged-to-promote-modern-tech-for-high-yield_719_1_3_1_5.html



http://www.daily-sun.com/details_Farmers-urged-to-promote-modern-technology-for-boosting-yield_719_1_8_1_7.html



http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2013/12/29/11053



http://thenewnationbd.com/news-details/nn/6154/farmers-urged-to-promote-modern-tech-for-boosting-yield-thenewnation



http://thebangladeshtoday.com/national/2013/12/farmers-urged-to-promote-modern-technology-for-boosting-yield/



The Bangladesh Today_December 29, 2013
Farmers urged to promote modern technology for boosting yield

RAJSHAHI : Speakers at a training programme here have urged farmers to
promote modern technologies especially raised bed system for boosting crop
yield to ensure food security of the country\’s gradually increasing
population, reports BSS.

They also urged the croppers to cultivate four less-irrigated crops- wheat,
maize, chickpea and lentil- through promoting the updated technologies
instead of relying only on the Irri-Boro to face the water-stress condition
caused by various natural and manmade catastrophes in the dried area.

The modern technologies are being adjudged as proven tools of cropping
intensity increase by 25 percent, production cost reduction by 40 percent,
system productivity increase by 20-25 percent and farmers income increase
by 30-40 percent as a whole, they added. The raining programme titled
\’Validation and up-scaling of resource conserving technologies for
improving productivity in drought-prone areas\’ was held at Rajabari High
School under Godagari Upazila of the district Friday.
Regional Wheat Research Center (RWRC), an organ of Bangladesh Agriculture
Research Institution, organized the training for disseminating ideas of
modern farming technologies and strategies among the grassroots farmers.

In his keynote speech, Dr Ilias Hossain, Senior Scientific Officer of RWRC,
viewed that the raised-bed system always help increasing water use
efficiency coupled with boosting cropping intensity and system productivity
through reducing the existing time gap between the two crops in
drought-prone area.

The technology contains some other special features like labour saving,
easier crop management and higher yield. It allows higher yield through
reducing the application rate of irrigation water. Thereby, the food
production increases feeding more peoples. The raised bed planting
technology is very promising and the farmers should adopt technology and
practice in various cropping fields like wheat, maize, mugbean and lentil.
The raised bed planter save time and cost of cultivation and the seeding
operation is finished during ploughing time.

As a whole, Dr Ilias views the technology could be promoted to a greater
extent if, in near future, a nationwide pilot project was adopted.

Taking part in the open discussion, the farmers put forward a set of
recommendations like machinery purchase on subsidized rate for its proper
acceleration and dissemination, more training for the farmers, operators,
extension workers, machinery manufacturers and ICM club members. The
stressed the need for popularizing the raised bed method widely so that the
farmers can derive total benefits of the technology.

Among others, RWRC Scientific Officer Zahidul Islam and headmaster of the
school Akhteruzzaman also spoke.

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