Now a days initiatives has been taken to create opportunities to access ICT based agricultural information for the farmers. Most of the training centers of agricultural organizations, Upazila offices of agriculture department, Union Parisad offices as information center are well equiped with internet facilities. In bengali many web sites are disseminating agricultural information and technologies to the farmers and agril stakeholders. They can get expert advice for particular agricultural problem or can get updated information.

But most of these initiatives are project based which is not continue after the end of the project period. Indipendent or self sustainable web sites can play a vital role to have impact for long time by commercial approach.

Mahfuz Hossain Mirdah

Dhaka, Bangladesh
 

Dear All Assalamoalikum This is Mahfuz Hossain Mirdah, Horticulturist, working with Department of Agricultural Extension, Bangladesh. I am involved in horticultural technologies dissemination to the field level special interest to ICT based technology dissemination in mother tongue (bengali). Our agricultural stakeholders feel comfort to have information in bengali and this is time to establish a structured bengali agril. web site in our country to promote production of agriculture commodities and value addition of the produces. I tried to contribute to develop the largest bengali agril. web site http://www.krishibangla.com and will try to add information about agriculture value chain for the growers. It is my pleasure to add me with this forum. Hope to stay with this excellent initiative. Thank you all.