Submitted by sep_admin on Fri, 2017-02-17 23:46
This report outlines the policy and institutional reforms needed to revitalize the national agricultural research and extension systems involving the public and the private organizations to meet the challenges confronting the Bangladesh agriculture in the 21st Centaury. The options included in this study are based on outcomes of consultations with various stakeholders (research managers, scientists, extension agents, government officials, NGOs, agro-processing enterprises, farmers and development partners). Consultations took place through workshops, field visits, group meetings and one-to-one discussions. Lessons learnt from reforms of national agricultural research and extension systems in other countries and from past interventions financed by the World Bank and other development partners in Bangladesh were also taken into account in preparing the reform agenda.