The damage caused by insect pest is the continual factor for reduction of rice production. To date, 232 species are identified in Bangladesh and more than 100 insects considered pests production systems globally, but only about 20 - 33 can cause significant economic loss. major goal this study to explore all possible ways developed proposed technologies management minimize losses. Insect 20% av...

Rice is a vital staple crop for Bangladesh and surrounding countries, with interannual variation in yields depending on climatic conditions. We compared Bangladesh yield of aus rice, one of the main varieties grown, from official agricultural statistics with Vegetation Health (VH) Indices [Vegetation Condition Index (VCI), Temperature Condition Index (TCI) and Vegetation Health Index (VHI)] com...

Flood mapping, particularly hazard and risk mapping, is an imperative process and a fundamental part of emergency response and risk management. This paper aims to produce a flood risk proxy map of damaged rice fields over the whole of Bangladesh, where monsoon river floods are dominant and frequent, affecting over 80% of the total population. This proxy risk map was developed to meet the reques...

Samples of rice and some vegetables (Amaranth leaves, arum stem, green banana, amaranth stick, brinjal, potato) were collected from Uttamdi and Naojam villages of Matlab area of Chandpur district, Bangladesh and were analyzed for arsenic (As) content by Hydride Generation Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry (HG-AAS). Both raw and cooked samples of the food items were studied. The As concentrati...

Built on deep-rooted political and cultural heritage, ‘rice security’ is the foundation of ‘food in Bangladesh. The country has been production-surplus rice current decade feeding over 165 million people. This on-going ‘selfsufficiency momentum’ would require to maintain meet increased demand from growing future population. On developmental side, Bangladesh placed among three world’s fastest ec...

The molecular marker is a useful tool for assessing genetic variations and resolving cultivar identities. Information on genetic diversity and relationships among rice landraces from Bangladesh is currently very limited. Thirty-five rice genotypes including 33 landraces and 01 HYV of Bangladesh and 1 Indian landrace of particular interest to breeding programs were evaluated by means of random a...

BACKGROUND Vitamin A deficiency continues to be a major public health problem affecting developing countries where people eat mostly rice as a staple food. In Asia, rice provides up to 80% of the total daily energy intake. OBJECTIVE We used existing data sets from Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines, where dietary intakes have been quantified at the individual level to 1) determine the...

The increasing demand for rice in Ghana has been a major concern to the government and other stakeholders. Recent concerns by the coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) to double rice production within ten years in Sub-Saharan countries have triggered the to implement strategies to boost rice production in the government. To fulfill this requirement, there is a need to monitor and foreca...

A total of 110 rice varieties of which 108 local (From Bangladesh Rice Research Institute) and two hybrid varieties (From ACI Ltd. Bangladesh) were used to identify the morphological traits during July, 2008 to June, 2009. These varieties represented four types viz. T. Aman (n=92), B. Aman (n=15), Boro (n=2) and Jhum accession (n=1) as described by Bangladesh Rice Research Institute’s literatur...