Food Security in Bangladesh: Improving Wheat, Maize and Papaya Production, and Impacts of Arsenic Contamination. Final Program Performance Report For the Period July 2002 to June 2007

摘要

The USAID funded project Food Security in Bangladesh: Improving Wheat, Maize and Papaya Production, and Impacts of Arsenic Contamination was designed to enhance food production through agronomic research and extension to improve the efficiency and profitability of maize, wheat and papaya crops, to help ensure sustainable use of Bangladeshs natural resources, including water resources, and to help diversify diets. The project activities were to contribute to the achievement of enhanced diversity in agricultural production in target areas which was part of USAID/Bangladesh's strategic objective 8: Improved food security for vulnerable groups. The project began in July 2002 and ended in June 2007. Originally the following eight components were developed and implemented: (1) Human Resource Development; (2) Facilitation and Promotion for Adoption of Mechanization by Growers; (3) GIS - Bangladesh Country Almanac; (4) Whole Family Training in Maize; (5) Papaya Improvement through Ringspot Viral Disease Resistance; (6) Impacts of Arsenic Contamination on Agricultural Sustainability and Food Quality; (7) Agro-food Nutrition Program in Chakaria, and (8) Monitoring and Evaluation of the Programs.