
JICA Team Meets BAU VC.
Dr. Takehiro Kamiya, Chief JICA Advisor, Safe and Nutritious Rice (SANRICE) Project & Associate Professor, Lab. of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizers, The University of Tokyo, Japan and JICA team pays a courtesy call on the Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh Professor Dr. A. K. Fazlul Haque Bhuiyan, on Sunday (24November 2024) at the Vice-Chancellor’s office of BAU in Mymensingh.
Mr. Ken Nakamura, Senior Scientist, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NAROO), Tsukuba, Japan and JICA Expert, SANRICE Projec; Dr. Kaori Matsuoka, Post-Doctoral Fellow, SANRICE Project, NARO, Tsukuba, Japan; Mr. Goro Nishimoto Coordinator, SANRICE Project, JICA, Bangladesh; Deputy Project Director, SANRICE Project & Professor, Dept. of Soil Science BAU, Mymensingh Dr. Mahmud Hossain Sumon and Project Director, SANRICE Project & Professor, Dept. of Soil Science BAU, Mymensingh Dr. Md. Rafiqul Islam, were also present at the meeting.

The BAU VC briefed the JICA team about the academic and research activities conducted by the university. He added BAU will provide all kinds of support in any further endeavors. In the meeting, they discussed on the implementation of the JICA funded Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATTEPS) project entitled “Development of Breeding and Water Management Technologies for Safe and Nutritious Rice Production” in the Dept. of Soil Science, BAU.