Crop museum vital for disseminating modern farming technologies

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BSS, Rajshahi :
Crop museum has become an effective tool for reaching and disseminating modern farming technologies to the grassroots farmers side by side with a successful expansion of various cash crops in the high Barind tract.
Adjacent farmers can easily visit the highly managed small demonstration plots of various developed crops in the museum and become encouraged to apply those in their fields.
Agricultural scientists and researchers revealed this while talking to BSS here narrating the salient feature of a crop museum that accumulates various crops.
The museum, established on around 36 decimal lands at Kodom Sohar beside the Rajshahi- Kakonhat road varieties under Godagari Upazila of the district, has 48 proven varieties of 26 crops like oilseed, vegetable, spice and food grains developed by Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI).
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