BD, S Korea to dev cold tolerance rice breeding
Staff Reporter :
South Korea will continue to work with Bangladesh for developing cold tolerance rice breeding and to increase capacity build-up, and will use modern agriculture machineries for more output, said Professor Hung-Goo Hwang, an agriculture expert.
He said, South Korean cooperation would not cease. The Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) is here to work in agriculture sector. Hwang said this on Wednesday while addressing a press conference organised by Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) on the occasion of evaluation of the progress of the project.
The research areas of KOICA-BRRI are cold tolerant breeding, Manual carrier, Hand operated agricultural machinery, Direct seeding machine, Harvesting mechanization and Rice milling technology.
BRRI Director (Admin) Dr Shahjahan Kabir, Deputy Project Director Dr Muhammad Abdur Rahman, Principal Scientific Officer of farm machinery Dr Md. Durul Huda, Dr. AKM Saiful Islam and Dr PS Biswas, among others, spoke in the seminar.
The project will help farmers save their both money and time in crops harvesting and plant transplantation since the machine can cut crops grown on one acre of land within few hours which the labourers manually need more than a week to complete, the Korean expert said.
South Korea will continue to work with Bangladesh for developing cold tolerance rice breeding and to increase capacity build-up, and will use modern agriculture machineries for more output, said Professor Hung-Goo Hwang, an agriculture expert.
He said, South Korean cooperation would not cease. The Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) is here to work in agriculture sector. Hwang said this on Wednesday while addressing a press conference organised by Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) on the occasion of evaluation of the progress of the project.
The research areas of KOICA-BRRI are cold tolerant breeding, Manual carrier, Hand operated agricultural machinery, Direct seeding machine, Harvesting mechanization and Rice milling technology.
BRRI Director (Admin) Dr Shahjahan Kabir, Deputy Project Director Dr Muhammad Abdur Rahman, Principal Scientific Officer of farm machinery Dr Md. Durul Huda, Dr. AKM Saiful Islam and Dr PS Biswas, among others, spoke in the seminar.
The project will help farmers save their both money and time in crops harvesting and plant transplantation since the machine can cut crops grown on one acre of land within few hours which the labourers manually need more than a week to complete, the Korean expert said.