Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology Conference Concludes
After three days of deliberations, the BAPTC&B organized Conference on Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology concluded on a note on confidence that the objective of the Association to harness the fruits of biotechnology is on its way to fulfillment, at the same time realizing that there is a long way to go before the dream of the biotech community is fully realized. Considering the short time, the Association had at its disposal to organize the conference, it was a big success. Thanks to Prof. M. Imdadul Hoque and Prof. Rakha Hari Sarker (DU) and their associates. Never before the Association was fortunate to have four NRB's available to enrich the PTC&B deliberations of which two were plenary lectures. Please click here to see the report of the Organizing Secretary, Professor M. Imdadul Hoque on the conference. To see the list of award winners for top four poster presentations click here. The second prize went to Bose Institute, Kolkata, while the remaining were shared by the Dhaka University- (first prize), DU- and Islamic University, Kusthia students (third prize), respectively. GNOBB want to express their gratefulness to Dr. Abul Hussam for providing funds making it possible to award the prizes. The recommendations of the conference will be posted here as soon as they are available. Let us work together united to implement the resolutions adopted to build up better Bangladesh. Please click here for more information.
The salient points emphasized by Dr. Md. Abdur Razzaque, Executive Chairman, BARC, on the theme of the Conference were the opportunities and hindrances that stand in the way of utilizing agricultural biotechnology in BD. He also traced the history and development of commercial production of Tissue Culture derived diversified crops and horticultural plants and compared the global status of transgenic crop cultivation vis-a-vis the scenario that currently exists in Bangladesh. He also discussed about the roles to be played by different regulatory bodies such as National Committee on Biosafety (NCB), The Biosafety Core Committee (BCC) and The Field Level Biosafety Committee (BFC) stressing the urgency that these committees should be fully operational in order to ensure genetically modified crops such as Bt brinjal, golden rice that will be released after containment trial will be safe and not present any health hazard to the public.
[Pl. read comments from one young scientist from Bose Istitute, Calcutta about the conference.]
Seated from left: Prof. Dr. M. Imdadul Hoque, Secretary, Organizing Committee, PTC&B Conference, Prof. Dr. M. Anwar Hossain, Dean, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Dhaka University; Prof. Dr. Nazrul Islam, Chairman, University Grants Commission; Dr. Md. Al-Amin, Vice- President, BAPTC&B; and Dr. Md. Abdur Razzaque, Executive Chairman, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council.
