{"id":8877,"date":"2023-10-08T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T09:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/?p=8877"},"modified":"2023-10-09T09:53:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T09:53:28","slug":"adopt-sustainable-technologies-in-agriculture-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/adopt-sustainable-technologies-in-agriculture-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopt sustainable technologies in agriculture sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-43.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-43.png 860w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-43-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-43-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-43-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although climate risks in agricultural production have increased over the years, Bangladesh could not adopt sustainable technologies in rural areas owing to a lack of proper initiatives, analysts said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, farmers across the country are incurring huge losses brought on by calamities such as floods, droughts, cyclones, uneven rainfall, extreme heat, increased salinity and water-logging, they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Being a low-lying deltaic plain, Bangladesh is the most vulnerable country in the world in terms of the number of people affected with respect to sea level rise,&#8221; said MG Neogi, deputy project leader of the University of Western Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said climate risks to agricultural production were expected to increase in coming decades, particularly in low-income countries where adaptive capacity is weaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Salinity has been gradually engulfing new areas in the coastal regions of the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neogi made the remarks at a seminar titled &#8220;Climate Change Adaptation, Agricultural Innovation and Resilience&#8221;, organised by Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS) Bangladesh at the Radisson Blu Water Garden in Dhaka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said farmers in the southern region used to cultivate boro rice and other winter crops in the dry season in the past and received a very good yield and income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Nowadays, after failing to get optimum yield again and again due to increased salinity and a severe scarcity of salt-free irrigation water, they stopped cultivating boro rice and other winter crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As a result, about 4.39 lakh hectares of land in the coastal region remain as fallow lands during the dry season,&#8221; said Neogi, who is also the winner of Swadhinata padak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the last 35 years, salinity has increased by 26 percent, heavily impacting the agriculture sector, according to data from the Soil Resource Development Institute (SRDI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shykh Seraj, director and head of news of Channel i, said Bangladesh could not popularise technologies such as biogas, alternate wetting and drying (AWD) and sack gardening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Many research-based technologies are still confined to paper; the government could not implement them in the fields,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About spreading the use of biogas technology, he said: &#8220;It has not spread to rural areas due to a lack of funds from the farmers&#8217; side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is high time to adopt and spread new technologies to save the small farmers, especially at a time when many big companies are entering the agriculture sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Atiur Rahman, former governor of the Bangladesh Bank, said solar irrigation pumps could be a saviour for farmers as well as the environment by reducing the use of diesel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the government is now giving up to 70 percent subsidy for agriculture mechanisation, but authorities should be encouraged to set up more irrigation pumps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He urged the government and NGOs to adopt sustainable technologies in the southern areas through partnership programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, chairman of the Dhaka School of Economics, urged the integration of existing policies in different ministries to increase adaptation capacity in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although climate risks in agricultural production have increased over the years, Bangladesh could not adopt sustainable technologies in rural areas owing to a lack of proper initiatives, analysts said. 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