Ensure sustainable agricultural development: President

BSMRAU convocation held

GAZIPUR: President Abdul Hamid yesterday urged agriculture scientists, researchers and others concerned to ensure sustainable agricultural development by applying their acquired knowledge, efficiency and inner potentialities, reports BSS.
”Don't forget the agriculture, its sources . . . Rather keep engaged in inventing a sustainable method and technology to ensure a new revolution in country's agriculture sector,” he said while addressing the 3rd convocation of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU) here yesterday afternoon.
The president further called upon all concerned to stand beside the farmers to encourage them for production as well as to ensure a fair price of their crops including potato, mangoes, tomato and other seasonal fruits.
Abdul Hamid, also the chancellor of the university, stressed the farmer-friendly invention and new technology so that those technologies can be used in the easiest way in practical life.
At the outset of the speech, the president paid rich tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, freedom fighters who, made supreme sacrifice in the 1971 Liberation War, language movement heroes and other martyrs of different democratic movements in different times.
Referring to the expansion of higher education countrywide, he said the prime object of the higher education is to flourish humanity, build skilled manpower and ensure the welfare of the country and its people. The President said, “The population of the country is on the rise while the agricultural land is decreasing gradually and we have to think about how we can do progress adjusting these two issues.”
Considering the above mentioned issue as a burning problem, he suggested the authorities concerned of all agricultural universities take pragmatic steps in running the academic activities of the universities.
President Hamid, who introduced himself as a son of a farmer and a father of an agriculturist, thanked the BSMRAU authority for maintaining quality education system and research activities amid introducing North American-based academic curriculum here.
The existing education system of the agriculture university, a centre of excellence, and the progress of its overall research activities in the meantime gained appreciation from both home and abroad. He urged the university teachers to play a pioneering role to make time-befitting the education system and emphasized the plan-wise development works in agriculture including crops, livestock, fisheries and forest. President Hamid also greeted the university teachers and researchers who achieved milestone achievements in sequencing the genomes of 30 crops.
“The innovative power and capability is a key element to materialise hopes and aspiration of the country and the nation,” he observed.

Ensure sustainable agricultural development: President

BSMRAU convocation held

GAZIPUR: President Abdul Hamid yesterday urged agriculture scientists, researchers and others concerned to ensure sustainable agricultural development by applying their acquired knowledge, efficiency and inner potentialities, reports BSS. Dont forget the agriculture, its sources . . . Rather keep engaged in inventing a sustainable method and technology to ensure a new revolution in countrys agriculture sector, he said while addressing the 3rd convocation of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU) here yesterday afternoon. The president further called upon all concerned to stand beside the farmers to encourage them for production as well as to ensure a fair price of their crops including potato, mangoes, tomato and other seasonal fruits. Abdul Hamid, also the chancellor of the university, stressed the farmer-friendly invention and new technology so that those technologies can be used in the easiest way in practical life. At the outset of the speech, the president paid rich tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, freedom fighters who, made supreme sacrifice in the 1971 Liberation War, language movement heroes and other martyrs of different democratic movements in different times. Referring to the expansion of higher education countrywide, he said the prime object of the higher education is to flourish humanity, build skilled manpower and ensure the welfare of the country and its people. The President said, The population of the country is on the rise while the agricultural land is decreasing gradually and we have to think about how we can do progress adjusting these two issues. Considering the above mentioned issue as a burning problem, he suggested the authorities concerned of all agricultural universities take pragmatic steps in running the academic activities of the universities. President Hamid, who introduced himself as a son of a farmer and a father of an agriculturist, thanked the BSMRAU authority for maintaining quality education system and research activities amid introducing North American-based academic curriculum here. The existing education system of the agriculture university, a centre of excellence, and the progress of its overall research activities in the meantime gained appreciation from both home and abroad. He urged the university teachers to play a pioneering role to make time-befitting the education system and emphasized the plan-wise development works in agriculture including crops, livestock, fisheries and forest. President Hamid also greeted the university teachers and researchers who achieved milestone achievements in sequencing the genomes of 30 crops. The innovative power and capability is a key element to materialise hopes and aspiration of the country and the nation, he observed.