BSS, Rajshahi :
Agricultural experts at a discussion here stressed promoting of agro-technology to boost production for meeting the gradual demand in the wake of increasing population.
They observed that cropping intensity can be increased to 250 percent even 400 percent from the existing 200 percent through reducing the existing time gap between the two crops after the best uses of modern technologies of agriculture.
To this end, they urged all the officials and others concerned including the scientists and farmers to put their level best efforts and work together as the present government is very much positive in this regard.
The observation came at the regional meeting of agriculture technology extension coordination committee here on Sunday. Additional Director Office of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) organized the meeting at its conference hall.
The meeting discussed and devised ways and means elaborately on making the forthcoming transplanted aman farming in Kharif-2 season a total success.
More than 40 officials concerned from DAE, Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA), Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI), Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), Seed Certification Agency (SCA), Soil Resource Development Institution (SRDI) and Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC) attended the meeting.
Chaired by Additional Director of DAE SM Mustafizur Rahman, the meeting was addressed, among others, by its Deputy Directors Joynal Abedeen, Dev Dulal Dhali, Monojit Kumar Mallik and Rafiqul Islam, SCA Regional Director Sirajul Islam, BARI Principal Scientific Officer Dr Ilias Hossain, BMDA Project Director Rafiqul Islam and BRRI Senior Scientific Officer Harunur Rashid.
Speakers said bringing agriculture under mechanization is of essence for boosting production.
They said the present government has attained remarkable success in agriculture sector and urged the officials concerned to put their collective efforts to uphold the government success in this sector in the days to come.
Community clinics become boon for rural pregnant mothers
Tarjina Begum, 25, is now happy as she has been blessed with a healthy baby after availing all requisite antenatal care (ANC) and postnatal care (PNC) from a nearby community clinic (CC).Begum, wife of Sabur Ali of Bamandighi village under Charghat upazila, took all the four-phase ANC and three-phase PNC from Bamandighi CC timely and accurately.
“I got the opportunity of taking the essential services with advantage of the CC. It was not possible for us to go to any upazila or district level hospital repeatedly due to our financial hardship,” she said while talking to BSS.
She terms the Bamandighi CC as vital means for regular medical checkup.
After getting her doorstep services she’s mentally satisfied.
Not only Begum but also many other poor and disadvantaged people including pregnant mothers are getting primary healthcare services from the CC, 10 kilometers off the Upazila Health Complex.
From the CC level health education sessions, the grassroots mothers are becoming aware about the importance of regular checkup of pregnant mothers for safe delivery.
Tarjina Begum expressed her gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her initiative of re-launching the CC.
While visiting the Bamandighi CC recently, this correspondent found that some patients were taking health services from community healthcare provider (CHCP).
CHCP Helal Uddin said every day we give health services to around 35 patients, including pregnant women and children.
Helal urged the authorities concerned to provide more medicine free of cost as most of the low-income people cannot afford medicine.
“People are getting health education, referral advice, pregnancy checkup, reproductive health services, de-warming and vaccination at the clinics that brought healthcare services to their doorsteps,” said Rajshahi Civil Surgeon Dr. Samjit Kumar Shaha.
He mentioned that the CCs are being made capable for normal delivery through imparting training to the family welfare assistants and visitors besides supplying necessary instruments.
The CCs are functioning with the main thrust of elevating the essential services besides enhancing knowledge level about health and disease control among the community people as a whole.
Agricultural experts at a discussion here stressed promoting of agro-technology to boost production for meeting the gradual demand in the wake of increasing population.
They observed that cropping intensity can be increased to 250 percent even 400 percent from the existing 200 percent through reducing the existing time gap between the two crops after the best uses of modern technologies of agriculture.
To this end, they urged all the officials and others concerned including the scientists and farmers to put their level best efforts and work together as the present government is very much positive in this regard.
The observation came at the regional meeting of agriculture technology extension coordination committee here on Sunday. Additional Director Office of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) organized the meeting at its conference hall.
The meeting discussed and devised ways and means elaborately on making the forthcoming transplanted aman farming in Kharif-2 season a total success.
More than 40 officials concerned from DAE, Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA), Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute (BARI), Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), Seed Certification Agency (SCA), Soil Resource Development Institution (SRDI) and Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC) attended the meeting.
Chaired by Additional Director of DAE SM Mustafizur Rahman, the meeting was addressed, among others, by its Deputy Directors Joynal Abedeen, Dev Dulal Dhali, Monojit Kumar Mallik and Rafiqul Islam, SCA Regional Director Sirajul Islam, BARI Principal Scientific Officer Dr Ilias Hossain, BMDA Project Director Rafiqul Islam and BRRI Senior Scientific Officer Harunur Rashid.
Speakers said bringing agriculture under mechanization is of essence for boosting production.
They said the present government has attained remarkable success in agriculture sector and urged the officials concerned to put their collective efforts to uphold the government success in this sector in the days to come.
Community clinics become boon for rural pregnant mothers
Tarjina Begum, 25, is now happy as she has been blessed with a healthy baby after availing all requisite antenatal care (ANC) and postnatal care (PNC) from a nearby community clinic (CC).Begum, wife of Sabur Ali of Bamandighi village under Charghat upazila, took all the four-phase ANC and three-phase PNC from Bamandighi CC timely and accurately.
“I got the opportunity of taking the essential services with advantage of the CC. It was not possible for us to go to any upazila or district level hospital repeatedly due to our financial hardship,” she said while talking to BSS.
She terms the Bamandighi CC as vital means for regular medical checkup.
After getting her doorstep services she’s mentally satisfied.
Not only Begum but also many other poor and disadvantaged people including pregnant mothers are getting primary healthcare services from the CC, 10 kilometers off the Upazila Health Complex.
From the CC level health education sessions, the grassroots mothers are becoming aware about the importance of regular checkup of pregnant mothers for safe delivery.
Tarjina Begum expressed her gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her initiative of re-launching the CC.
While visiting the Bamandighi CC recently, this correspondent found that some patients were taking health services from community healthcare provider (CHCP).
CHCP Helal Uddin said every day we give health services to around 35 patients, including pregnant women and children.
Helal urged the authorities concerned to provide more medicine free of cost as most of the low-income people cannot afford medicine.
“People are getting health education, referral advice, pregnancy checkup, reproductive health services, de-warming and vaccination at the clinics that brought healthcare services to their doorsteps,” said Rajshahi Civil Surgeon Dr. Samjit Kumar Shaha.
He mentioned that the CCs are being made capable for normal delivery through imparting training to the family welfare assistants and visitors besides supplying necessary instruments.
The CCs are functioning with the main thrust of elevating the essential services besides enhancing knowledge level about health and disease control among the community people as a whole.
