Although there is substantial progress in creating employment, reducing poverty and malnutrition in Bangladesh over the last few decades. However, unemployment, poverty and malnutrition are still the problems in our country. Several socio-economic development activities are carried out in our country for the further improvement of the situation. The Poultry »
Molecular farming (also known as bio-pharming) is characterized as the production of proteins or other metabolites that are extremely important as medicine or to industry. This technique only requires an agricultural setting after the desired protein gene is inserted in plants. Usually, plants can synthesize a wide variety of proteins »
Substantial economic losses in the poultry industry have resulted from Bird flu (High and Low Pathogenic avian influenza- H5N1 & H9N2) infection across Bangladesh. To protect our poultry industry in Bangladesh, ACI Animal health has introduced two types of vaccines against bird flu. A webinar was organized on “Bird Flu »
The research for biotechnology in Bangladesh started in the late 1970s. The root cause behind the initiation was the significance of the agricultural sector, which had been the backbone of our economy since ancient times. The research first started in the department of botany in University of Dhaka through Tissue »
Considering the production of about 10 million tones of potatoes in the country, there is an urgent need for diversified use of the harvested potatoes. As a result, the processing of potato for domestic use and export markets has been identified as a national priority for effective management of the »
Production and marketing of seed potato is an important activity of ACI Seed. Potato research and development activities, particularly as per need and requirement of ACI Seed, are generally planned and implemented by the Advanced Seed Research & Biotech Centre (ASRBC) of ACI Agribusiness. ACI Seed’s seed potato production »
Tissue culture is applied in plant research for such purposes as the growing of new plants, which in some cases undergo genetic alterations. The plant of interest is taken through the tissue culture process and grown in a controlled environment. This process involves the use of small pieces of a »
Being ultramicroscopic obligatory parasites, viruses are quite difficult to study. In ancient time, plant viral diseases were identified based on only symptoms. Controlling viral diseases of plants has always been difficult as virus has no cellular components. Molecular biology has changed the world of virology, pathology etc. Since Watson and »
Tissue culture is applied in plant research for such purposes as the growing of new plants, which in some cases undergo genetic alterations. The plant of interest is taken through the tissue culture process and grown in a controlled environment. This process involves the use of small pieces of a »
Being ultramicroscopic obligatory parasites, viruses are quite difficult to study. In ancient time, plant viral diseases were identified based on only symptoms. Controlling viral diseases of plants has always been difficult as virus has no cellular components. Molecular biology has changed the world of virology, pathology etc. Since Watson and »
Bangladesh is an agro-economy based country with a large population compared to its land area and resources. With the country's population projected to reach 192.9 million by 2025 and economic growth transforming the lives of millions, our food demand is expected to be much higher than its current growth »
