Bhutanese minister wants more collaboration with BRRI

GAZIPUR: Minister for Agriculture and Forests of the Royal government of Bhutan Lyonpo Yeshey Dorji wants more collaboration with Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) to make his country surplus in rice production.  
The Minister expressed this interest while he was visiting BRRI in Gazipuron Wednesday morning. BRRI Director General Dr Jiban Krishna Biswas welcomed the visiting Minister and his accompanies at the institute and briefed about the institute’s contributions over the years in making Bangladesh a food surplus country. He also discussed ways and means to strengthen collaboration between BRRI and Bhutan in an opinion exchange meeting held at the BRRI conference room. Additional Secretary of the Bangladesh Ministry of Agriculture Mohammed Fazle Wahed Khandaker, BRRI Director (Administration and Common Service) Dr Mohammed Shahjahan Kabir, BRRI Director (Research) Ansar Ali, Coordinator for Advanced Studies and Research Mohammed Abu Saleque  attended the meeting. Dorji’s visit was aimed at exchanging ideas between BRRI scientists, policy makers as well as the partners beyond borders and enhancing collaboration through knowledge sharing. During the discussion, the speakers stressed on the need for quick dissemination of modern rice production technologies including farm machinery, seeds of stress tolerant rice varieties. Mentioning Bangladesh’s extraordinary success in rice production, the Minister expressed his government’s willingness to make Bhutan a rice surplus country. For this he said that BRRI developed high yielding rice varieties along with the production technologies can be useful in that country as well. Minister Dorji showed special interest while taking a look at the research laboratories of BRRI as he was also enthusiastic about the institute’s activities on plant breeding, biotechnology, farm mechanization.

 

Bhutanese minister wants more collaboration with BRRI

GAZIPUR: Minister for Agriculture and Forests of the Royal government of Bhutan Lyonpo Yeshey Dorji wants more collaboration with Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) to make his country surplus in rice production. The Minister expressed this interest while he was visiting BRRI in Gazipuron Wednesday morning. BRRI Director General Dr Jiban Krishna Biswas welcomed the visiting Minister and his accompanies at the institute and briefed about the institutes contributions over the years in making Bangladesh a food surplus country. He also discussed ways and means to strengthen collaboration between BRRI and Bhutan in an opinion exchange meeting held at the BRRI conference room. Additional Secretary of the Bangladesh Ministry of Agriculture Mohammed Fazle Wahed Khandaker, BRRI Director (Administration and Common Service) Dr Mohammed Shahjahan Kabir, BRRI Director (Research) Ansar Ali, Coordinator for Advanced Studies and Research Mohammed Abu Saleque attended the meeting. Dorjis visit was aimed at exchanging ideas between BRRI scientists, policy makers as well as the partners beyond borders and enhancing collaboration through knowledge sharing. During the discussion, the speakers stressed on the need for quick dissemination of modern rice production technologies including farm machinery, seeds of stress tolerant rice varieties. Mentioning Bangladeshs extraordinary success in rice production, the Minister expressed his governments willingness to make Bhutan a rice surplus country. For this he said that BRRI developed high yielding rice varieties along with the production technologies can be useful in that country as well. Minister Dorji showed special interest while taking a look at the research laboratories of BRRI as he was also enthusiastic about the institutes activities on plant breeding, biotechnology, farm mechanization.