Bangladesh Country Investment Plan - Feed the Future

B. Priority Interventions
6 Priorities
from
Consultation
Process
(Brief
description
of activities)
From various consultations the emerging key priority is strengthening of technology
generation and adoption for diversified agricultural production. Also there was a strong
call for interventions on climate change adaptation and mitigation. Research and
extension were considered as key drivers for boosting agricultural productivity in the
country. There is a need to develop more adapted crop varieties that will contribute to
strengthened and diversified sustainable agricultural production. Support will be required
to strengthen physical and human capacities of the key players in research and extension
to ensure effective interventions in this programme area.
The prioritization of activities linked to each of the interventions is as follows:
Enhance research & knowledge generation and adoption to increase agricultural
productivity and diversity in a sustainable manner
Crops
Enhance capacity of NARS in terms of infrastructure and HRD (T) . Varietal
development: High yielding varieties of major crops with production technology (T).
Develop public-private partnership on biotechnology and tissue culture facilities (H).
Short maturing Aus and Aman rice, summer season hybrid vegetables and lean season
fruits (H). Rice varieties rich in Vitamin, Zinc and Iron (M). Develop low-input but high
output varieties (Hybrid, green super rice) (M). Collection, conservation and preservation
of germplasms (M). Management Practices: Water and soil conserving technologies (T).
Cropping pattern for high Barind with short maturing HYV Aus varieties (T). Adaptive
trials for direct seeded rice cultivars and all technology developed by NARS (H).
Technology for pre and post harvest loss minimization (H). Technology for organic
farming of horticultural crops (H). Cultural practices for fertilizer, seedling age and short
maturing rice varieties (H). Low-cost technology for hill, char, haor land and coastal areas
(M). Introduce leguminous crops into the cropping pattern (M). Strengthened plant
quarantine services (H).
Livestock
Development of capacity for livestock research (T). Human resource and ICT skill
development & digitalization of livestock research (H). Disease control: Development
of control measures of emerging, re-emerging and trans-boundary zoonotic diseases (H).
Dairy and poultry development: Dairy research and development (H). Poultry
technology development for sustainable farming (H). Value addition: Research on value
addition of livestock and poultry products (milk, meat and eggs) (H). Genetics:
Conservation and improvement of livestock (cattle, buffalo, goat and sheep), poultry and
feeds and fodder germplasm (H).
Fisheries
Strengthening research capacity and building online information networking of BFRI (H).
Coastal Aquaculture & marine fishery: Integrated coastal rice-shrimp-prawn-fish
farming system for sustainable management of land-water resources (T). Shrimp culture
and value chain addition (T). Captive breeding, seed and grow-out production techniques
of commercially important marine and brackish water species (M). Research on
interventions for new grounds in deep sea fishing (M). Inland aquaculture: Quality
brood, seed and sustainable grow-out production of freshwater giant prawn (T).
Rationalization of feed development and feeding method for yield optimization and
reducing costs (T). Improvement and standardization of species and location specific cage
aquaculture (T). Fish hygiene and quality control (T). Disease and health management of
shrimp and fish (T). Integrated homestead aquaculture, agriculture and livestock system
(T). Participatory cohort or rotational breeding for sustainable supply of quality seed of
cultured fish species (H). Brood development and breeding techniques for indige nous
flood plain fish species (H). Extensive research on depletion of fishes in Kaptai lake (H).
Research on conflict management of water bodies (H). Location specific aquaculture
technology (H).
Updated Bangladesh Country Investment Plan: A Road Map Towards investing in Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition
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