Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Gazipur organised a workshop for the one country one priority product project in Asia and the Pacific at the institute's Kazi Badruddoza auditorium yesterday.

Sabina Yesmin, joint secretary (research branch) of the ministry of agriculture, inaugurated the workshop as chief guest, said a press release.

Senior scientists from different divisions and centres of BARI, FAO officials and university teachers participated in the workshop.

Debasish Sarker, director general of BARI, presided over the workshop, where Dr Jingyuan Xia, director for plant production and protection division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), was present as special guest.

FAO Representative in Bangladesh Robert D Simpson, Ferdouse Islam, director (support and services), Md Abdullah Yousuf Akhond, director (research), Dilwar Ahmed Choudhury, director (planning & evaluation), Md Tariqul Islam, director (oilseed research), Sohela Akhter, director (tuber crops research centre), Gobinda Chandra Biswas, director (horticulture research centre), and Babul Chandra Sarker, chief scientific officer of pomology division, HRC, were present.