Reaz Ahmad

Bangladeshi rice scientists are all set to conduct field tests of the world's first vitamin A-enriched rice, popularly known as Golden Rice, before taking the variety to production phase. The success in vitamin A-rich rice comes in quick succession of the world's first three zinc-rich rice varieties that Bangladesh released over the last couple of years.

For Mintu Dey artistic recreation of our country's birth history is a passionate dream.

This year's public sector wheat import has hit a snag over quality issues.

All the ministries and divisions of the government will have to sign annual performance agreements (APAs) with their subordinate departments and organisations by October 15 to ensure better public service and more accountability, said cabinet division sources.

Projecting its success in achieving key Millennium Development Goals (MDG), Bangladesh will announce its full commitment to meet the new targets to be set up by the United Nations in its current general assembly (UNGA).

Bangladeshi scientists have developed four transgenic rice varieties capable of production in high soil salinity, far better than the ones now available in the market that were derived from conventional breeding.

Projecting Bangladesh as a focal country, a global initiative would be launched in the United States in November to end hunger and undernutrition by 2025.

Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (Brri) has successfully developed a second breed of zinc-rich rice which grows faster, gives better yield and is of better nutritional values than its predecessor.

The discovery of an elusive particle theorised 85 years ago would eventually take the world to a new dawn of super fast electronics and computing.

Bangladesh yesterday began greenhouse trial of a genetically modified (GM) cotton variety imported from China.

The government plans to spend nearly Tk 50,000 crore in the next five years on revamping the farm sector, which now faces

Country's 13 million farm families will continue to enjoy incentives in terms of subsidised fertilisers and other farm-input support as

A home-grown software solution to agro-input management has gone global. Developed by a social business venture in Bangladesh, mrittikā -- software for soil nutrient analysis -- is now being made popular

Bangladesh's opportunity to seize the benefits of 'demographic dividend' will last for the next 16 years as there will be an acceleration in numbers of elderly people (60 years and above) after 2031.

Consumers in the United Kingdom will be able to buy Bangladesh-grown soft and juicy fleshed mangoes from their neighbourhood supermarkets from this Monday.

A global campaign that supports the genetically modified "golden rice" and promotes the cause for fighting child mortality entered