PM for optimum use of farmland
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon the agricultural researchers to conduct more research to fix cropping zone for optimum utilisation of farmland.
"We should cultivate crops suiting our land and those crops which are produced more at a low cost," she said when a five-member delegation of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agriculture University of Gazipur paid a call on the premier at her office.
Vice-Chancellor of the university Prof Dr Md Abdul Mannan Akanda led the delegation.
During the meeting, the prime minister also emphasised the need for increasing production of wheat and maize and encouraging people to change their food habit to reduce pressure on rice, said PM's Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad after the meeting.
She also asked all concerned to take appropriate measurers to diversify cultivation of crops.
Regarding age problem of the researchers to continue research, the premier said her government is thinking about the matter so that age could not be a bar for the researchers.
The government will provide allout support so that they could conduct research smoothly for increasing food production to make the country self-sufficient in food, she added.
She said her government has taken various pragmatic measurers including providing subsidy on agri-inputs to boost food production as her government doesn't want to be dependent on food import from other countries.
During the meeting, the delegation members expressed gratitude to the premier for her government's initiative to fix the retirement age of university teachers at 65 years.
They also raised various problems of the teachers and sought the PM's cooperation to solve those. Hasina assured that her government would take necessary measurers to solve those problems for the development of the university.
Principal Secretary to the PM M A Karim and Secretary to the PM's Office Molla Waheeduzzaman were, among others, present on the occasion.
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