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Around 90 high officials from Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), Statistics and Informatics Division (SID) and relevant line departments participated in the inception workshop of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded FAO project contributing to ‘Strengthening Agriculture Market Information System in Bangladesh (AMIS)’, jointly organized by FAO and BBS, and held...

The ‘Report on In-Depth Capacity Assessment of Bangladesh to produce Agricultural and Rural Statistics’ has just been completed with FAO’s technical support – finalized by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and other govt. stakeholders in statistics – with a strong commitment to enhance agricultural and rural statistics in Bangladesh. The IdCA...

As part of an effort to improve the supply of microbial risk-free street foods for the urban population, Mr Mike Robson, FAO Representation in Bangladesh and Mr Sayeed Khokon, Hon’ble Mayor, Dhaka (South) City Corporation jointly handed over 100 food carts to chosen vendors during a ceremony attended by over...

A divisional consultation workshop on the “Country Investment Plan: Environment, Forest, and Climate Change”, was held in Rajshahi on 8 June 2015 as part of the USAID-funded project ‘Strengthening the Environment, Forestry and Climate Change Capabilities of the Ministry of the Environment and Forestry (MoEF) and agencies”. It involved around...

With the participation of around 2000 people from the government, senior academics, developments partners - and a large number of primary school students - this year ‘World Milk Day-2015’ was jointly hosted by Food and Agriculture Organization, Department of Dairy Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) and, Bangladesh Milk Producers’ Co-operative...