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Bangladesh: Agricultural Knowledge Bank and Learning Centre

· Rising Voices

Categories: Bangladesh, Poverty, Blogs, Other, Social Networking

The proposed BAKB-Learning Centre will serve as a hub of online agricultural information management system. It will provide updated agricultural contents and location-specific agricultural technology through internet, CD and print. Also a feedback has to be developed. BAKB will be to help farmers improve the production and income from agricultural activities, and thereby, to contribute to strengthening food security and reducing poverty.

Topical focus:

Poverty [1]

Country:

Bangladesh [2]

What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?

Sirajganj

Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.

Researchers and agricultural workers generating lots of agricultural activities in the country. All the relevant technologies must be quickly disseminated from lab to field for the benefit of farmers. But the conventional methods by GOs & NGOs quite often do not help obtaining the right information at the right time. Farmers also often find it difficult to get solutions to their problems as fast as they expect. BAKB can play a role to solve this.

What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?

BAKB will provide updated agricultural content/information including rice, wheat, maize, vegetables, fruits, horticultural crops, livestock, fishery production technology, pest management, location-specific agricultural technology etc. through different media.

What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?

Blogs [3], Other [4], Social Networking [5]

Other tools

Professional web portal will be developed

Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.

Already planned to established BAKB and Learning Centre in partnership with different Government and Non-Government organizations support from international donors. This will require different institutions and stakeholders to work together. Information are being collected from relevant research institutions, GO, NGOs and development projects and designing in an effective and attractive format. The BAKB portal will be publish very soon.

How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?

A Multimedia Display Centre will be established to display agricultural products and technology video.

100 Farmers to be trained under this project. Professional Agricultural Research Scientist will be facilitated the training

Interactive Video on Technology and Flip Charts will be used as training tools.

Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?

Some equipment (computer, printer) and technical facilities will be provided by our own sources.

Contact name

Md Abdul Mannan

Organization

Bangladesh Agricultural Knowledge Bank and Learning Centre

Link to Existing Project

http://digitalinfobd.org/agriculture.php [6]