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Mr Mike Robson, FAO Representative in Bangladesh and his team visited Chittagong Regional Medical Supplies Store for talks with the high-level government officials on Monday, 2 March 2015 on the disposal of an old stock of  500 MT DDT.  The ADG of Department of Environment, Mr Hashmi, and Mr Mark...

Around 50 people from a wide range of food safety stakeholders took part in the first training session organized by the new Bangladesh Food Safety Authority hosted by the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) of the Ministry of Food, from 23-26 February. The training covered “Awareness on ISO 22000:2005 Food...

A team from FAO Bangladesh led by Mr. Mike Robson, FAOR in Bangladesh along with Ms. Sultana Afroz, Joint Secretary, Economic Relations Division (ERD), met Ms. Ismat Ara Sadique, Hon’ble State Minister, Ministry of Public Administration at the request of the State Minister, herself to discuss about the issue of...

A team from FAO Bangladesh met with Ms. Matia Chowdhury, MP, Hon’ble Minister of Agriculture on Wednesday, 11 February, 2015 to present the findings of an FAO study into waterlogging in South West Bangladesh – causes and possible measures to be taken. The work is just one part of FAO’s...

The Ministry of Agriculture has endorsed the nomination of “Floating Garden Agriculture Practices”, as the first candidate from Bangladesh to FAO’s global partnership initiative on conservation and adaptive management of ‘Globally-Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS)’ at a meeting on 28 January 2015. The benefits of nomination are to focus attention on...