Our Correspondent :
Renowned entomologist Dr. Debashish Sarker has been appointed as the new Director General (DG) of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) on Thursday. According to the order issued by the Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday, he has been appointed as the Director General (Current Charge) of BARI.
He served as the Director (Pulses Research Center, Ishwardi, Pabna) of BARI before joining in this post. He was also working as Chief Scientific Officer, Department of Entomology, Bari, Gazipur. In addition to serving as Chief Scientific Officer, he served as the Project Director of Development and expansion of bio-rational based integrated Pest management technologies of vegetables, fruits and betel leaf Project.
He joined at the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute’s Laksha Research Center, Chapainawabganj as a Scientific Officer in 1990. He was subsequently promoted to the rank of Senior Scientific Officer, Principal Scientific Officer, Chief Scientific Officer and Director.
