GAU, JIRCAS sign deal to promote soy bean output

GAZIPUR, Nov 5: Gazipur Agricultural University (GAU) and Japan’s International Agricultural Research Center (JIRCAS) have signed a research collaboration agreement to promote sustainable, environmentally friendly and climate-resilient soy bean production in Bangladesh and strengthen the country’s food and feed security.

Under the agreement, the two institutions will conduct joint research to develop sustainable and climate-resilient soy bean production technologies suited to Bangladesh.

GAU Vice-Chancellor Professor GKM Mostafizur Rahman and JIRCAS Programme Director Keisuke Omori signed the agreement during a ceremony at the vice-chancellor’s office on Wednesday.

JIRCAS senior researchers Yamanaka Naoki and Sasaki Kazuhiro, GAU Director of Research Professor Md Mosiul Islam, project principal researcher Professor Md Motaher Hossain, Director of the Institutional Quality Assurance Cell Professor Nasreen Akhter Ivy and Associate Professor Liaquat Ali of the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding were present at the ceremony.