BARI holds FAO Regional Launch Event and Workshop for OCOP Country

Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Gazipur has arranged Closing session of FAO Regional Launch Event and Workshop for OCOP Country Projects in Asia and the Pacific at the Kazi Badruddoza auditorium of the institute on Thursday.

Joint Secretary (Research Branch) of the Ministry of Agriculture Dr. Sabina Yesmin inaugurated the workshop as chief guest. Director General of BARI Dr. Debasish Sarker presided over the workshop while Director, Plant Produc-tion and Protection Division (NSP), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy Dr. Jingyuan Xia was present as special guest. FAO Representative in Bangladesh Robert D. Simpson was also present at the event.

BARI Director General Dr. Debasish Sarker welcomed the FAO delegation at the time of their arrival in the institute with other directors. Director (Support & Services) Dr. Ferdouse Islam, Director (Research) Dr. Md. Abdullah Yousuf Akhond, Director (Planning & Evaluation) Dr. Dilwar Ahmed Choudhury, Director (Oilseed Research) Dr. Md. Tariqul Islam, Director (Tuber Crops Research Center) Dr. Sohela Akhter, Director (Horticulture Research Centre) Dr. Gobinda Chandra Biswas and Chief Scientific Officer of Pomology Division, HRC, Dr. Babul Chandra Sarker were present at this time.

During the visit of the FAO delegation to the jackfruit orchard before the workshop, Principal Scientific Officer of the Fruit Division of Horticultural Research Center Dr. Md. Jillur Rahman highlighted the current progress and future plans of BARI’s jackfruit research.

The delegation then observed various technologies related to jackfruit processing in the Postharvest Technology Division.