Farm Productivity is the Key to Sustainability
Tuesday Jul 6th, 2021
News Reporter It’s time for your Farm of the Future Report. I’m Tim Hammerich.
It’s likely that the farm of the future will not only need to feed a lot more people, but it will have to do so with fewer environmental impacts, and that includes lowering the carbon footprint of the food system. Richard Waite is a senior research associate at the World Resources Institute. He says lowering this carbon footprint will mean reforestation, and more productivity needed from agriculture.
Waite… “If the world s agriculture kind of stayed as it is today. And we had to feed a lot more people and you get a lot of deforestation. If it continues to improve as it has over the past decades and you can kind of reasonably expect it will, we still get quite a bit of deforestation. If you want to get that deforestation down to zero, and not only that, if you want to then open up some areas that are currently p
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BAU holds workshop on climate resilient crop varieties
Staff Correspondent | Published: 00:59, Jun 04,2021
The inaugural workshop for a project on climate resilient crop varieties was held at Bangladesh Agricultural University on Thursday, said a press release.
The project titled Adoption of Climate Resilient Crop Varieties in Selected Environmentally Vulnerable Areas of Bangladesh and Its Impact on Farm Productivity is funded by Krishi Gobeshona Foundation.
The university’s agricultural economics department hosted the event, in which vice-chancellor Professor Lutful Hassan was the chief guest and the foundations’ executive director Jiban krishna Biswas was present as the chief patron.
The chief discussant was Emeritus Professor and BAU’s former vice-chancellor MA Sattar Mandal.