Bangladeshi Prime Minister To Scientists - Please Invent Rice Strains To Handle Destabilized Climate

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked scientists to invent new varieties of rice compatible with the climate change and varied seasons. “We have to produce rice that will harmonise with the seasonal changes and adjust the changing climate,” she said during a speech at International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) at its 50th anniversary at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre.

The premier said the agriculture sector would directly be affected due to the adverse impact of the climate change. As an impact of the climate change, Hasina noted that the sea level would rise and a huge land mass of the country likely to be submerged, raising the level of salinity.

Hasina said emphasise should be put on the invention of high-yield verities that could adapt to the hostile climate. “You have to invent new varieties of crops that should adapt with this situation so that the production of rice must not come down,” Hasina directed the scientists.

Hasina said one of the main components of the high yielding variety of rice is water for irrigation. “But you know, it has been taken into consideration greatly as the use of underground water increased alarmingly,” she said.

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http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=146652

http://www.indexmundi.com/bangladesh/birth_rate.html">Bangladesh Vital Statistics at Index Mundi

Bangladesh is #71 at 24.68, declining; the U.S.A. is #153 at 13.82, steady or slowly declining.

The P.M. is obviously scared, but he'd do better to demand foodstuffs that can grow in the shallow seawater that will quickly and soon cover most of his nation.

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> ... he'd do better to demand foodstuffs that can grow in the shallow seawater
> that will quickly and soon cover most of his nation.

Seaweed? :shrug:

(Thanks for the birth rate stats link: UK is #181 @ 10.65 steady)

“We have to produce rice that will harmonise with the seasonal changes and adjust the changing climate,”

“You have to invent new varieties of crops that should adapt with this situation so that the production of rice must not come down,”

It's all right there. Substitute rice and crops with whatever particular topic is being discussed, and it's all right there. Do humans, can humans, should humans, have that much control?