Bangladesh has strong potential to exploit wind power and meet growing demand for green electricity, analysts said yesterday. The 700km-long coastline in the coastal region of Bangladesh provides good prospects to develop offshore wind energy, said Anette Galskjøt, commercial counsellor of Danida Business Partnerships of Denmark in Bangladesh. The hilly regions in Chittagong and Sylhet […]
How did the international wheat yield partnership come about? Launched at the Borlaug summit on wheat for food security, held in Mexico on 25 March, the international wheat yield partnership was formed to address rising demand for wheat around the world. The partnership builds on committments made by agriculture ministers from the G20 nations in 2011 to co-ordinate worldwide research efforts in wheat genetics, genomics, physiology, […]
Jun 10 2014 | Posted in
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Bangladesh has been ranked fourth among 91 countries with worst urban air quality in the latest air pollution monitoring report of World Health Organisation (WHO). Moreover, three Bangladeshi cities have been put among the top 25 cities with poorest air. The 2014 version of the Ambient Air Pollution (AAP) database consists mainly of urban air […]
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