BSS, Rangpur :
Experts at a meeting on Sunday stressed on increasing production of zinc rice seeds and its smooth marketing to enhance cultivation, production and consumption of zinc rice for improving nutritional status of people. They viewed this at the “Zinc Rice Seed Value Chain Actor’s Meeting” organised by RDRS Bangladesh at its Training Centre in the city with assistance of HarvestPlus Bangladesh.
Forty participants including farmers’ leaders, seed dealers, seed company representatives, seed entrepreneurs, journalists and officials and experts of RDRS Bangladesh and HarvestPlus Bangladesh took part at the event. The meeting was arranged under the Commercialisation of Biofortified Crops (CBC) Project of HarvestPlus Bangladesh being implemented by RDRS Bangladesh in Rangpur division.
