BSS, Dhaka :
Agriculture Minister Dr M Abdur Razzaque said the government in an attempt to modernize the farm sector has initiated a process to employ farm engineers to promote and popularize farm machineries at the grassroots for cost-effective crop production.
“Initiative has been taken to modernize the farm sector along with process is underway to employ the farm engineers at the field level under the agricultural extension department,” he said this on Thursday while speaking at a seminar on ‘Farm Mechanization in Bangladesh: Present and Future’ at Engineers Institution, Bangladesh (IEB) here.The government is providing farm machineries to the growers with 50 to 70 percent subsidies, he told the seminar arranged by the IEB’s farm engineering department.
“Even to popularize, expanding and guiding to the farmers, initiative has been taken to recruit farm engineers under the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) at the field level across the country,” he added.
Razzaque said most of the farm machineries imported from abroad are costlier, adding that “so we have taken steps to supply farm equipments to the farmers at cost-effective price.” To encourage manufacturing of farm machineries locally, he said discussions have already been made with much more foreign companies including Japanese Yanmar Company and Mahindra of India who will set up their manufacturing plant locally.
The Japanese Yanmar has assured the government to set up a assemble plant in Bangladesh, the minister informed the seminar. If the farm machineries are manufactured locally, it would reduce the price of the machineries and create huge employment of the local people, the minister explained.
Chaired by IEB’s Farm Engineering department Chairman Engineer M Moazzem Hussen Bhuiyan, the seminar also was addressed, among others, by IEB president Engineer M Nurul Huda, Bangladesh Agriculture University Professor Engineer M Manjurul Alam, Engineer Shahadat Hossen Siblu and Engineer Misbahuzzaman chandan. The key note paper was presented by Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI)’s chief Engineer M Iyub Hossen.
Agriculture Minister Dr M Abdur Razzaque said the government in an attempt to modernize the farm sector has initiated a process to employ farm engineers to promote and popularize farm machineries at the grassroots for cost-effective crop production.
“Initiative has been taken to modernize the farm sector along with process is underway to employ the farm engineers at the field level under the agricultural extension department,” he said this on Thursday while speaking at a seminar on ‘Farm Mechanization in Bangladesh: Present and Future’ at Engineers Institution, Bangladesh (IEB) here.The government is providing farm machineries to the growers with 50 to 70 percent subsidies, he told the seminar arranged by the IEB’s farm engineering department.
“Even to popularize, expanding and guiding to the farmers, initiative has been taken to recruit farm engineers under the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) at the field level across the country,” he added.
Razzaque said most of the farm machineries imported from abroad are costlier, adding that “so we have taken steps to supply farm equipments to the farmers at cost-effective price.” To encourage manufacturing of farm machineries locally, he said discussions have already been made with much more foreign companies including Japanese Yanmar Company and Mahindra of India who will set up their manufacturing plant locally.
The Japanese Yanmar has assured the government to set up a assemble plant in Bangladesh, the minister informed the seminar. If the farm machineries are manufactured locally, it would reduce the price of the machineries and create huge employment of the local people, the minister explained.
Chaired by IEB’s Farm Engineering department Chairman Engineer M Moazzem Hussen Bhuiyan, the seminar also was addressed, among others, by IEB president Engineer M Nurul Huda, Bangladesh Agriculture University Professor Engineer M Manjurul Alam, Engineer Shahadat Hossen Siblu and Engineer Misbahuzzaman chandan. The key note paper was presented by Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI)’s chief Engineer M Iyub Hossen.
