Abstract:
Agriculture- crops, fisheries, livestock, and forestry is a vital source of the national economy of Bangladesh accounting for about 31 percent of GDP, more than 65 percent of employment and 17 percent of commodity export earnings. Economic growth requires significant development in agricultural out put and productivity in order to relieve the wide spread poverty.
In the 21st century, Bangladesh agriculture would be grounded in meeting the basic two challenges of increasing agricultural production through intensive production and sustaining natural resources.
To increase productivity in all sectors in agriculture, it is necessary to improve our research scientists through higher technological knowledge and skill. But Bangladesh is a resource poor country and it is not possible to provide higher studies leading to a PhD. to all research scientists working in the institutes. Further we con not increase the land area for agricultural production, and in fact agricultural land decreases due to various reasons day by day.
Thus we need higher technological knowledge and skill to encourage higher agricultural productivity through intensive production in all agricultural sectors in our country. Therefore, the development of specific field capacity is necessary, so that future high priority research can be done properly and might increase productivity model to feed future generations. For advanced fields where we have no capacity to develop our scientists within the country, such as genetic engineering, plant, fish and animal physiology, molecular biology as a diagnostic tool for plant and animal disease determination, bio-technology, DNA profile, molecular marker for disease identification (disease resistant crops), fish and animal vaccine development through recombinant DNA technology , biotechnology policy and regulatory efforts relating to biosafety of intellectual property right, etc., we need to send scientists to train developed universities abroad
