DHAKA, 14 January 2022, (TON): The D-8 (Developing Eight), an alliance of eight developing countries, has decided to take a multinational integrated project to innovate climate-smart agriculture technologies.

The decision was taken at a two-day ministerial-level meeting of D-8 held virtually, hosted by the Agriculture Ministry of Bangladesh.

Earlier, the host Bangladesh placed a proposal at the seventh D-8 Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture and Food Security to take an integrated project to develop climate-smart technologies aiming to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change in agriculture. 

The agriculture ministers of eight member states agreed to take the integrated project to this end and approved the Dhaka Initiative on the final day of the meeting at the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC) in Dhaka with Bangladesh’s Agriculture Minister Abdur Razzaque in the chair.

Under the project, joint research, innovation, development and expansion of advanced agricultural technologies will be carried out in the D-8 countries to address the climate change impacts.