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Operation
Director General of the Institute is overall
responsible for administration, finance and execution of the
programmes related to research, manpower development, planning,
audit and accounts, transfer of technology and other extension
education activities. The Director General is assisted by two
Directors. Director (Research) and Director (Transfer of
Technology).
Director (Research) is responsible for research
programme planning, monitoring, evaluation and co-ordination of
research activities as performed by the research divisions,
regional and sub-stations. He is assisted by a Research Co-ordinator
and Heads of Research Divisions. Director (Transfer of
Technology), on the other hand, is responsible for the transfer
of technologies to different clients through organizing
training, workshop, seminar, publication of reports, journal,
booklet, leaflet, production manuals etc.
Each research division and regional station is
headed by a Principal Scientific Officer (PSO)
& Chief Scientific Officer (CSO)
respectively who is assisted by a number of Principal
Scientific Officer (PSO)/Senior
Scientific Officer (SSO)/Scientific
Officers (SO). The sub-stations are headed by a scientist.
Scientists of regional and sub-stations work on location
specific problems as well as transfer of technologies.
Research Stations
The head-quarter of BSRI is located at Ishurdi,
Pabna, which is about 250 km North-West of the capital city
Dhaka. The institute is well connected by road and rail.
Geographically, it is situated at latitude 24007/ N,
longitude 89005/ E and 15.2 meter above the sea
level. The average annual rainfall at this station is 1500-1770
mm, temperature ranges from 21.110C to 30.550C
and relative humidity is 58%-92%. The main station is on 95.14
hectares of land of which 24.29 hectares (60 acres) are occupied
with buildings, roads, irrigation channels etc.
There are two Regional Sugarcane Research Stations (RSRS)
located at Madargonj, Thakurgaon and Joydevpur, Gazipur and one
Quarantine Station at Joydevpur, Gazipur. The institute has also
six sub-stations located at Joypurhat, Rajshahi, Jamalpur,
Chuadanga, Rahamatpur (Barishal) and Chunarughat (Hobiganj)
(proposed).
RSRS, Thakurgaon was established at the Patuadangi
farm of Thakurgaon Sugar mills during 1982. It is located at a
distance of 10 km from Thakurgaon district headquarters. A total
of 55 persons including 11 scientists, 2 officers and 42 support
staff are working at this station. Apart from laboratories, it
has a mini-library, weather recording facilities and other
support services. This station has trained more than 5000
farmers and extension workers of sugar mills and NGOs. It also
conducted more than 500 demonstrations on different improved
varieties and technologies involving more than 800 sugarcane
farmers since 1987.
RSRS, Gazipur is located at the South-West corner of the BARI
farm at Joydebpur, Gazipur. The construction of the new research
building has been completed in December, 2003.
The Quarantine station located within the Bangladesh
Rice Research Institute (BRRI) campus, Gazipur has been working
since 1980 to provide quarantine follow-up of imported
varieties.
Sub-station Chuadanga located 3 km West of Chuadanga railway
station. This station has solved many local problems related to
sugarcane cultivation and has trained 622 sugarcane farmers on
improved sugarcane production technologies. Recently two acres
of land have been acquired from Akandabaria farm of the Carew
and Co. sugar mills for the construction of this sub-station.
Sub-station Rajshahi, located at North-West corner of the City,
conducts research on local problems. This station also conducted
300 demonstrations and on-farm adaptive trials on different
improved technologies involving about 500 sugarcane farmers
since 1981.
Sub-station Joypurhat is located near the Joypurhat Sugar Mills
Ltd. Substation Jamalpur and Rahamatpur are located within the
campuses of the Regional Agricultural Research Station (RARS)
Jamalpur and RARS Barishal, of BARI.
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