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Jacques Diouf calls on Hasina

PM seeks FAO help in agri tech transfer

Hasan jAHID TUSHER from rome
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought assistance from Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in agricultural tech nology transfer in Bangladesh for enhancing food production and productivity in particular to enhance production of rice and achieve self-sufficiency.
She also sought assistance for producing quality seeds, fertilisers, related agricultural inputs for promoting technology adoption by farmers, modern marketing of agricultural products, including per ishablc crops, fisheries and livestock products.
The premier made the requests when FAO Director General (DG) Jacques Diouf paid a courtesy call on her on the sidelines of the 'World Summit on Food Security 2009' at the FAO Headquarters on Tuesday night.
Highlighting Bangladesh's preference for advancement in biotechnology and genetic engineering as a tool to new green
revolution and call for regional and global cooperation in this context, she said Bangladesh Is set to officially release submergence-tolerant rice varieties that would help farmers prevent up to a million tonnes of annual crop loss caused by flash floods.
Hasina mentioned her government's various plans and programmes for ensur ing food security of the countrymen through increasing agricultural production, reducing prices of agricultural inputs and guaranteeing fair prices of farm produce.
She also mentioned that her govern merit has brought the prices of essentials under purchasing power of the commoners just after assumed office.
She voiced concern that the poor in the least developed countries (LDCs), including Bangladesh, were the hardest hit by the recent global economic recession.
The premier welcomed the FAO DG in handling the high food prices during the
period.
Climate change poses an immediate and far-reaching threat to people and communities around the world and is already hampering the lives and livelihood, the PM said.
She underscored that climate change adaptation and mitigation options, technology and knowledge should be shared regionally and globally, especially among the Mekong, Nile and GBM deltas.
The PM also stressed the need for collective measures at the global and regional levels which are required to assure the world of adequate food security’.
“Renewed attention is required for the development of agricultural sector particularly in the food-importing developing countries."
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, Food and Disaster Management Minister Abdur Razzaque, Press Secretary to Prime Minister Abul Kalam Azad and Ambassador Ziauddin were present.