Rangpur Correspondent :
Expanded cultivation of high yielding and stress-tolerant crop varieties adopting conservation agriculture (CA)-based technologies could further increase food productivity for attaining sustainable agriculture.
Talking to BSS, agriculture experts said popularisation of CA-based technologies and mechanisation of agriculture among farmers would also improve soil health and fertility along with reducing crop farming costs making agri-activities more profitable.
Agriculturist Dr. Md. Abdul Mazid, who got the Independence Medal (food security) last year, said Bangladesh is currently producing over 3.60-crore tonnes food annually making the nation self-reliant on meeting food demand for its 16-crore population.
“The farmers have started reaping benefits from adoption of the eco-friendly CA-based agricultural technologies and proven practices having no adverse effects on environment, ecology and bio-diversity,” he said.
He said the government has taken various pragmatic steps to keep the growth in food production increasing to further enhance food output by minimum 1.5 times within 2050 for feeding the country’s probable 22 crore population that time. “The sustainability in the agricultural systems incorporates concepts of both resilience and persistence and addresses many wider economic, social and environmental outcomes to improve food productivity amid adverse impacts of changing climate,” he said.
For a sustainable agriculture, the nation must have to make productive use of nature’s goods and services and improved technologies, proven practices, knowledge and skills of farmers to solve common agricultural and natural resource problems.
Expanded cultivation of high yielding and stress-tolerant crop varieties adopting conservation agriculture (CA)-based technologies could further increase food productivity for attaining sustainable agriculture.
Talking to BSS, agriculture experts said popularisation of CA-based technologies and mechanisation of agriculture among farmers would also improve soil health and fertility along with reducing crop farming costs making agri-activities more profitable.
Agriculturist Dr. Md. Abdul Mazid, who got the Independence Medal (food security) last year, said Bangladesh is currently producing over 3.60-crore tonnes food annually making the nation self-reliant on meeting food demand for its 16-crore population.
“The farmers have started reaping benefits from adoption of the eco-friendly CA-based agricultural technologies and proven practices having no adverse effects on environment, ecology and bio-diversity,” he said.
He said the government has taken various pragmatic steps to keep the growth in food production increasing to further enhance food output by minimum 1.5 times within 2050 for feeding the country’s probable 22 crore population that time. “The sustainability in the agricultural systems incorporates concepts of both resilience and persistence and addresses many wider economic, social and environmental outcomes to improve food productivity amid adverse impacts of changing climate,” he said.
For a sustainable agriculture, the nation must have to make productive use of nature’s goods and services and improved technologies, proven practices, knowledge and skills of farmers to solve common agricultural and natural resource problems.
