Press Release: The 19th Annual Conference of Bangladesh Agronomy Society (BSA) has been held today (Saturday, 26 December, 2020) at Kazi Badrudduza Auditorium of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI). The theme of this year`s conference was ‘Tailoring Agronomy for Changing World’.
Vice-Chancellor of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU), Gazipur Prof. Dr. Md. Ghiashuddin Miah was the chief guest while President of BSA and former director general of BARI Dr. Md. Rafiqul Islam Mondal presided over the conference. BARI Director General Dr. Md. Nazirul Islam and Professor of BSMRAU Dr. M. A. Karim were present as special guests. General Secretary of BSA and Chief Scientific Officer of RegionalPulsesResearchSub-Center, BARI, Gazipur Dr. Md. Omar Ali address welcome speech and Publication Secretary of BSA Prof. Dr. Parimal Kanti Biswas gave the vote of thanks.
Senior International Consultant of the International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center (CIMMYT) Dr. Moin Us Salam was the key-note speaker at the conference. Two more research papers were also presented at the technical session of the conference.
Speakers at the conference said, keeping pace with the present world, the population of our country is increasing day by day. But the amount of cultivable land is not increasing at that rate but on the contrary it is decreasing day by day. So delivering nutritious food is a huge challenge for this growing population. At the same time, achieving the SDG targets by 2030 is one of the challenges for us. On the other hand, the current global Corona situation has made these challenges even more difficult. Therefore, we hope that through this conference, agronomists will be more diligent and play an important role in addressing these existing challenges.