Experts at the concluding ceremony of a fair have stressed for adoption of the latest agriculture technologies to increase production of crops and fruits to ensure food security, meet nutrition demand and alleviate poverty.
Citing adverse impacts of climate change, they put emphasis on innovating time-befitting technologies for cultivation of crops and hybrid variety fruits through imparting training to the farmers, men and women to further increase crop and fruit production.
They were addressing concluding ceremony of the three-day ‘Upazila Agriculture Technology and Fruit Tree Fair-2014’ jointly organised by Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) and upazila administration on Mithapukur upazila parishad premises here on Monday afternoon.
Earlier, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Ministry of Public Administration H M Ashikur Rahman, MP, formally inaugurated the fair at a ceremony arranged there on last Friday as the chief guest.
Regional Additional Director of DAE Kamal Kumar Sarker attended the concluding ceremony as the chief guest and distributed prizes among the best stall owners with Mithapukur Upazila Agriculture Officer Khorshed Alam in the chair.
Deputy Director of the DAE Zulfiqar Haider addressed the ceremony as the special guest.
Sub-assistant Agriculture Officer Tarekuzzaman and successful ‘Haribhanga’ mango grower Alhaj Abdus Salam Sarker also spoke on the occasion participated by farmers, nursery owners, government and NGO officials teachers, students and local elite.
Twenty-six stalls of fruit tree saplings, fruits, agro-machineries, equipments, technologies and agro- products were set up in the fair by the private sector nursery owners, farmers, agriculture related departments and NGOs.Many varieties of fruits, including indigenous species, and varieties of fruit tree saplings were exhibited in the fair that was visited by hundreds of farmers, common people, including women and children, students and officials daily.Speakers in the concluding ceremony asked for increasing production of all crops and high-valued, hybrid and developed varieties of fruits to attain national food security, meet nutritional demand and achieve self- reliance.
They stressed for ensuring optimum use of cultivable land with adoption of the latest technologies to increase production in agriculture, fisheries and livestock sectors for attaining sustainable national food security under adverse climatic change impacts.
The chief guest asked for expanded cultivation of the high yielding and hybrid varieties of crops, fruits and vegetables aiming at increasing productions round the year to ensure national food security and achieve self-reliance through alleviating poverty.
