Bangladesh Country Investment Plan - Feed the Future
Bangladesh Country Investment Plan - Feed the Future
Bangladesh Country Investment Plan - Feed the Future
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B. Priority Interventions<br />
6 Priorities<br />
from<br />
Consultation<br />
Process<br />
(Brief<br />
description<br />
of activities)<br />
From various consultations <strong>the</strong> emerging key priority is streng<strong>the</strong>ning of technology<br />
generation and adoption for diversified agricultural production. Also <strong>the</strong>re was a strong<br />
call for interventions on climate change adaptation and mitigation. Research and<br />
extension were considered as key drivers for boosting agricultural productivity in <strong>the</strong><br />
country. There is a need to develop more adapted crop varieties that will contribute to<br />
streng<strong>the</strong>ned and diversified sustainable agricultural production. Support will be required<br />
to streng<strong>the</strong>n physical and human capacities of <strong>the</strong> key players in research and extension<br />
to ensure effective interventions in this programme area.<br />
The prioritization of activities linked to each of <strong>the</strong> interventions is as follows:<br />
Enhance research & knowledge generation and adoption to increase agricultural<br />
productivity and diversity in a sustainable manner<br />
Crops<br />
Enhance capacity of NARS in terms of infrastructure and HRD (T) . Varietal<br />
development: High yielding varieties of major crops with production technology (T).<br />
Develop public-private partnership on biotechnology and tissue culture facilities (H).<br />
Short maturing Aus and Aman rice, summer season hybrid vegetables and lean season<br />
fruits (H). Rice varieties rich in Vitamin, Zinc and Iron (M). Develop low-input but high<br />
output varieties (Hybrid, green super rice) (M). Collection, conservation and preservation<br />
of germplasms (M). Management Practices: Water and soil conserving technologies (T).<br />
Cropping pattern for high Barind with short maturing HYV Aus varieties (T). Adaptive<br />
trials for direct seeded rice cultivars and all technology developed by NARS (H).<br />
Technology for pre and post harvest loss minimization (H). Technology for organic<br />
farming of horticultural crops (H). Cultural practices for fertilizer, seedling age and short<br />
maturing rice varieties (H). Low-cost technology for hill, char, haor land and coastal areas<br />
(M). Introduce leguminous crops into <strong>the</strong> cropping pattern (M). Streng<strong>the</strong>ned plant<br />
quarantine services (H).<br />
Livestock<br />
Development of capacity for livestock research (T). Human resource and ICT skill<br />
development & digitalization of livestock research (H). Disease control: Development<br />
of control measures of emerging, re-emerging and trans-boundary zoonotic diseases (H).<br />
Dairy and poultry development: Dairy research and development (H). Poultry<br />
technology development for sustainable farming (H). Value addition: Research on value<br />
addition of livestock and poultry products (milk, meat and eggs) (H). Genetics:<br />
Conservation and improvement of livestock (cattle, buffalo, goat and sheep), poultry and<br />
feeds and fodder germplasm (H).<br />
Fisheries<br />
Streng<strong>the</strong>ning research capacity and building online information networking of BFRI (H).<br />
Coastal Aquaculture & marine fishery: Integrated coastal rice-shrimp-prawn-fish<br />
farming system for sustainable management of land-water resources (T). Shrimp culture<br />
and value chain addition (T). Captive breeding, seed and grow-out production techniques<br />
of commercially important marine and brackish water species (M). Research on<br />
interventions for new grounds in deep sea fishing (M). Inland aquaculture: Quality<br />
brood, seed and sustainable grow-out production of freshwater giant prawn (T).<br />
Rationalization of feed development and feeding method for yield optimization and<br />
reducing costs (T). Improvement and standardization of species and location specific cage<br />
aquaculture (T). Fish hygiene and quality control (T). Disease and health management of<br />
shrimp and fish (T). Integrated homestead aquaculture, agriculture and livestock system<br />
(T). Participatory cohort or rotational breeding for sustainable supply of quality seed of<br />
cultured fish species (H). Brood development and breeding techniques for indige nous<br />
flood plain fish species (H). Extensive research on depletion of fishes in Kaptai lake (H).<br />
Research on conflict management of water bodies (H). Location specific aquaculture<br />
technology (H).<br />
Updated <strong>Bangladesh</strong> <strong>Country</strong> <strong>Investment</strong> <strong>Plan</strong>: A Road Map Towards investing in Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition<br />
2 June 2011<br />
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