A 3-day-long annual research review workshop of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute will begin today at its headquarters in Gazipur.
Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture CQK Mustaque Ahmed will inaugurate it as chief guest at 10:00am at BIRRI auditorium.
About 200 scientists, researchers and officials are expected to participate in the workshop.
BRRI director general Dr AKG Mad Enamul Haque will chair the inaugural function while its research director Dr Md Khairul Bashar will present the keynote paper highlighting BRRI's research performance.
Dr Wasi Kabir, executive director of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, and Md Habibur Rahman, director general of the Department of Agricultural Extension, will attend the opening session as the special guests.
BRRI dhan55, BRRI dhan58 and BRRI dhan57 - the three high yielding and drought tolerant early maturing rich varieties - are the latest innovation of the BRRI. Of these varieties, BRRI dhan55 can be cultivated throughout the country in favourable conditions and it yields one tone more on per hectare of land than the most popular and cultivated BRRI dhan28.
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