Allocation for R & D in agriculture

The other night while I was surfing through the TV channels, my attention was drawn to a business talk show on RTV, wherein Prof. Dr. Md. Shahidur Rashid Bhuiyan, Pro-VC of our university (the two other participants were Mr. Shykh Shiraj and Dr. Zafarullah) was commenting on the proposed budgetary allocation in the agriculture sector. He put emphasis on the need for undertaking a long-term programme with adequate financial support to promote research and development (R & D) activities in the field of agriculture. This way future challenges like cultivating crops under stressed conditions, for example, drought, salinity, water stagnation, etc. could be faced through breeding tolerant varieties. Prof. Bhuiyan also suggested providing special privileges and incentives to agricultural scientists so that they do not opt for better jobs abroad.
While supporting Prof. Bhuiyan's views, I would sincerely call upon the government to materialise the above proposal in the greater interest of the country.