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Agriculture is a major sector of Bangladesh's economy. More than 30% of the cultivable land in Bangladesh is in the coastal area. Out of 2.86 million hectares of coastal and off-shore lands about 1.056 million ha of arable lands are affected by varying degrees of salinity. Farmers mostly cultivate low yielding, traditional rice varieties during wet season. Most of the land remains fallow in the dry season (January- May) because of soil salinity, lack of good quality irrigation water and late draining condition. Crop production of the salt affected areas in the coastal regions differs considerably from non-saline areas. Because of salinity, special environmental and hydrological situation exists, that restrict the normal crop production throughout the year. In the recent past, with the changing degree of salinity of some areas due to further intrusion of saline water, normal crop production becomes very risky. Crop yields, cropping intensity, production levels and people’s quality of livelihood are much lower than that in other parts of the country. At the same time food demand in the area is increasing with the steady increase in human population. From that realization, Lal Teer Seed Limited has initiated research on the development of saline resilient vegetable varieties to combat the adverse effect of climate change. In 2018, Lal Teer established a research station at Rampal, Bagerhat in collaboration with “Salt Farm Texel, Netherlands”. Lal Teer started screening of its hybrid varieties and local germplasm followed by breeding for the development of salt tolerant varieties. Besides, Lal Teer started working on finding out different climate resilient agro-practices that will minimize the effect of salinity. Goal: Removing the hunger of coastal people and contributing in nation food security. Objectives: Development of stress tolerant crop varieties. Finding out climate resilient best agro-technologies to mitigate those stresses. Disseminating those varieties, agro-technologies and knowledge to the farmers. Achievements: We recommended one groundnut line “Lal Teer Chinabadam-1” that has already been released as a commercial variety. We recommended a wheat line (OA62) with high salinity tolerance, currently undergoing the process of variety release. We introduced "Bohan," a saline-tolerant red beet variety. We introduced "Korist," a saline-tolerant kohlrabi variety. We screened numerous vegetable crop varieties (both commercial and pipeline entries) for their relative performance under different salinity levels (primarily focusing on low salinity [2-5 dS/m] and high salinity [8-14 dS/m]). National & International Collaborators: Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh, Bangladesh Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU), Dhumki, Patuakhali, Bangladesh Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Gazipur, Bangladesh Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), Gazipur, Bangladesh Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA), Mymensingh, Bangladesh Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute (BWMRI), Dinajpur, Bangladesh International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippine International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, UAE New Mexico State University (NMSU), USA North Dakota State University, USA University of Gothenburg, Sweden Wageningen University and Research (WUR), Netherlands The Salt Doctors, Netherlands Acacia Water, Netherlands Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP), Netherlands Nuffic, Netherlands Delphy, Netherlands International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nigeria Soybean Innovation Lab (SIL), University of Illinois, USA OlsAro, Crop Biotech AB, Gothenburg, Sweden Future Plans: By 2030, we want to have at least one salinity tolerant variety of all available crops of Bangladesh Raising the cropping intensity of coastal area above 200%

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