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Bangladesh Sugar Crop
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The head office of the Bangladesh Sugarcane Research Institute is located in the upazila's Pabna-Ishwardi roadside area and is located at 235.00 acres of land area in Aranakola and Baranpur mouzas.

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The head office of the Bangladesh Sugarcane Research Institute is located in the upazila's Pabna-Ishwardi roadside area on the 2.36 acres of land area in Aranakola and Baranpur mouzas. The only reliable economic crop in the north-west and south-western region of low rainfall area is sugarcane. BSRI is an important research institute in the country. Where the research is on the use of sugar and sugar, molasses and chelms, and the use of multicultural use of sugar. In 1951, the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of East Pakistan established '' sugarcane research center '' with only 17 personnel at Ishwardi in Pabna district. The activities of the center were limited only to breeding sugar and breeding. To further improve the sugarcane research center, the then "Government of the Food and Agriculture Council" of the Government of Pakistan entrusted the central government control. But without any significant improvement, in 1965 the center was again returned to the provincial government's Ministry of Agriculture. In 1971, this center was nearly destroyed in the war of liberation. After the liberation of the country, the center was handed over to the Bangladesh Sugar Mills Association under the Ministry of Industries in 1973. In 1974, the company formulated a project called "Sugarcane Research Institute".


During the second five-year plan (1980-85), the Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation presented a project to the Planning Commission for setting up a "Staff Training Center" in Ishwardi and Thakurgaon. In consideration of the project, the "Staff Training Center" was approved by linking it with the Sugar Research Institute and the sugarcane research institute was renamed as "sugarcane research and training institute". Through the decision of a cabinet decision in 1989, the government again entrusted the ministry of agriculture to the organization to promote it. In 1996, the establishment of the "Bangladesh Sugarcane Research Institute" was abolished by the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, the executive order of the Executive Committee of the Iquique Research and Training Institute. Then on 17th August, 1996 the law of Bangladesh Sugarcane Research Institute was enacted in the Jatiya Sangsad.


BSRI is working to achieve self-sufficiency in the production of sugar and molasses of the country. Basically, two types of work are done from this Institute: (a) Innovations of improved varieties of sugarcane and improved production techniques; and (b) Advanced varieties of innovation and advanced production techniques - Spreading among sugarcane growers. Its research wing has been consisted of 8 research centers, 1 quarantine center and 2 regional centers. On the other hand technology transfer wing has been formed, comprising two main departments, 6 sub-centers and 3 branches. Technology transfer wing usually trains sugarcane and expansion workers. Planters set up exhibitions of new technologies in the land. Expanding new news of farming through different types of publications. The farmer verifies the usefulness of new technologies and collects its feed-back information.


BSRI has so far made 34 different sugarcins innovation and release. All of them are high yielding and rich in sugar. These varieties are cultivated in about 99% of the country's sugarcane area and 57% of area under sugarcane molasses.

 
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