Sustainable cotton consultancy Cotton Connect’s new impact report describes how its family of cotton programs achieved positive results in 2023-2024.
The London-based consultancy helps global brands source more fairly and sustainably by creating more robust, resilient and successful raw material supply chains. Part of this effort includes programs including REEL Cotton, REEL Regenerative, the Organic Cotton Farmer Training Program and the Regenerative Organic Program. The report showed how these programs, which trained 452,321 farmers during the period, resulted in a positive reduction in inputs affecting soil health...
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Bangladesh, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen collaboration in research and innovation, technology transfer, extension services, and capacity development in the rice-based agrifood systems in Bangladesh. The MoU signing ceremony, which took place at DAE Head Office, Khamarbari, Farmgate, Dhaka marked a significant milestone in the long-standing partnership between IRRI and the Government of Bangladesh.
Under this MoU, IRRI and DAE will collaborate on research and development (R&D) projects to enhance the productivity of rice-based agri-food systems, promote climate-smart agriculture, and accelerat...
The government is extending all-out support to the agri-entrepreneurs and providing with all sorts of stimulus packages, Minister of State for Women and Children Affairs Simeen Hussain (Rimi) MP said in a day-long training program organized for agricultural entrepreneurs at Barun High School located in Kapasia of Gazipur district. She added that young people should take this opportunity to be the agents of change in the transformation of agriculture.
United Commercial Bank PLC (UCB) has held this training under the agricultural support scheme, titled ‘Bhoroshar Notun Janala’, which is being implemented as a corporate social responsibility (CSR) project in accordance with the directive of the Banglad...
The cabinet today approved the draft of a revised National Agriculture Policy eying to benefit farmers and attaining food and nutrition security for the people.
The cabinet approval came at its weekly meeting at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, reports BSS.
“The policy has been framed by upgrading the previous policy of 2013 . . . its prime goal is to make the agriculture sector safe and profitable and attain food and nutrition security,” Cabinet Secretary Md Shafiul Alam told a news briefing after the meeting, simultaneously approved in principle the draft of Bangladesh Shishu Academy Act.
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The government of Bangladesh will speed up plans to import rice that it brought in to build reserves and rein in local prices after flash floods hit domestic output, government officials said on Thursday.
As part of that, a Bangladeshi delegation is now in Vietnam to finalize imports of the staple grain in a government-to-government deal, said a procurement official, declining to be
identified as he was not authorized to speak with media. He did not give further details on the transacti...
The contract further enhances the presence of the OCP group in one of South Asia’s most fertiliser-dependent markets. DAP is a water-soluble fertiliser, which dissolves quickly in soil to release these nutrients, crucial fo...
