Bangladesh Institute for Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) has been selected for the prize of Science and Technology in the category of most noted research institution in Islamic Development Bank's least developed member countries.

The prize, which consists of a cash of $100,000, a trophy and a certificate, will be given to the institute at a special ceremony to be held on the occasion of the IDB's board of governors meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia on 15-16 May, says a ministry press release.

BINA, which was set up under the instruction of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in July, 1972, has so far invented 83 improved and high yielding varieties of 12 crops and nine chemical fertilizer and other technologies. Of them several varieties are saline, draught and flood tolerant and high yielding in the context of environmental change.

In 2013, BINA won Bangabandhu national Agricultural Award for its outstanding contribution in the agriculture.