Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury yesterday told parliament that Bangladesh has taken an initiative to cultivate Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) cotton or BT cotton to boost cotton production.

She also said the government has provided training to 60,000 farmers on modern cotton cultivation and set up 3,050 demonstration plots under a project for increasing its production.

In another reply, the minister said 347.10 lakh metric tonnes of rice were produced in the country in 2015-16 fiscal, enough to meet the country's hundred-percent demand of rice.