BSS, Rajshahi :
Speakers at a bilateral discussion here asked the concerned officials for attaining skills in computer application and preparing news stories and features on agricultural information for disseminating those through mass media.
Effective and quick dissemination of the latest agricultural information among the farmers utilising the print, electronic, online and community media and ICT Information Communication Technology) could help to increase crop production, they said.
Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) and Regional office of Agriculture Information Service (AIS) jointly organized the meeting titled “Use and Application of Information and Communication Technology in Agriculture” at BMDA conference hall in Rajshahi city on Tuesday.
MDA Chairman Dr Akram Hossain Chowdhury addressed the meeting as the chief guest with Engineer Abdur Rashid, Executive Director of BMDA, in the chair. AIS Director Dr Jahangir Alam spoke on the occasion as focal person.
The speakers viewed that an effective and rapid dissemination of the latest agricultural information to the farmers through newspapers, television, and community radio and information communication technology will help farmers to produce bumper yields and ensure national food security.
They stressed on enhancing knowledge and expertise of the agriculture related officers on ‘e-Agriculture’ and capacity building for reaching necessary information at the farmers’ doorsteps utilizing the digitised ICT facilities.
Dr Akram Hossain Chowdhury said farmers have been getting necessary information on agriculture from the Union Digital Centres set up under the UNDP assisted (Access to Information) a2i Programme of the Prime Minister’s Office.
The farmers would easily get tremendous benefits of ‘e-Agriculture’ like proper managements of crops, pesticides, crop diseases, nutrition of crop plants, seed sowing periods, homestead and roof gardening, animal husbandry at their doorsteps, he added.
Dr Jahangir Alam said the present government has been working relentlessly for reaching the updated agricultural information and communication technologies among the farmers aimed at freeing the nation from poverty and hunger.
The ecological balance is being affected due to indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in the agricultural lands and the water bodies.
He put emphasis on bringing the farmers under the services of the existing information services so that they could be habituated with the modern method for judicious use of agricultural inputs to protect the environment from further health hazards and other pollutions.
BMDA Superintending Engineers Dr Abul Kashem and Shamsul Huda and Project Director ATM Rafiqul Islam also spoke.
Speakers at a bilateral discussion here asked the concerned officials for attaining skills in computer application and preparing news stories and features on agricultural information for disseminating those through mass media.
Effective and quick dissemination of the latest agricultural information among the farmers utilising the print, electronic, online and community media and ICT Information Communication Technology) could help to increase crop production, they said.
Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) and Regional office of Agriculture Information Service (AIS) jointly organized the meeting titled “Use and Application of Information and Communication Technology in Agriculture” at BMDA conference hall in Rajshahi city on Tuesday.
MDA Chairman Dr Akram Hossain Chowdhury addressed the meeting as the chief guest with Engineer Abdur Rashid, Executive Director of BMDA, in the chair. AIS Director Dr Jahangir Alam spoke on the occasion as focal person.
The speakers viewed that an effective and rapid dissemination of the latest agricultural information to the farmers through newspapers, television, and community radio and information communication technology will help farmers to produce bumper yields and ensure national food security.
They stressed on enhancing knowledge and expertise of the agriculture related officers on ‘e-Agriculture’ and capacity building for reaching necessary information at the farmers’ doorsteps utilizing the digitised ICT facilities.
Dr Akram Hossain Chowdhury said farmers have been getting necessary information on agriculture from the Union Digital Centres set up under the UNDP assisted (Access to Information) a2i Programme of the Prime Minister’s Office.
The farmers would easily get tremendous benefits of ‘e-Agriculture’ like proper managements of crops, pesticides, crop diseases, nutrition of crop plants, seed sowing periods, homestead and roof gardening, animal husbandry at their doorsteps, he added.
Dr Jahangir Alam said the present government has been working relentlessly for reaching the updated agricultural information and communication technologies among the farmers aimed at freeing the nation from poverty and hunger.
The ecological balance is being affected due to indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in the agricultural lands and the water bodies.
He put emphasis on bringing the farmers under the services of the existing information services so that they could be habituated with the modern method for judicious use of agricultural inputs to protect the environment from further health hazards and other pollutions.
BMDA Superintending Engineers Dr Abul Kashem and Shamsul Huda and Project Director ATM Rafiqul Islam also spoke.
