on February 15 and 16, 2023 an international conference on Climate Smart Agriculture has been held in PSTU. The first day was officially opened by Prof. Alamgir Kabir from PSTU and Prof. dr. Fulco Ludwig of WUR. Special guests spoke during the inaugural part; Chief Guest Muhammed Alamgir of University Grants Commission of Bangladesh, Special guest Thijs Woudstra of Deputy Head of Mission Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Bangladesh and Matthijs Landsmeer of Nuffic. During the 2-day conference inspiring keynote speakers shared their knowledge and experience about CSA. Keynote speakers who contributed were: Dr. Wais Kabir, Prof. Fulco Ludwig, Dr. Salma Begum and Dr. M.G. Mostafa Amin. On the second day we saw many interesting presentations from researchers and specialists about Salinity and CIS.

A Farmer Fieldday was organised by Lal Teer Seed, supported bij Salt Doctors, at the Fieldlocation near Bagerhat. 100 farmers were invited. The location shows a variety of crops, on High Salinity fields or Low Salinity fields. During the Farmer Fieldday there were interesting presentations about the research of Syful Islam of Lal Teer Seed and Arjen de Vos of Salt Doctors.

Climate Smart Agriculture for a Resilient Coastal Bangladesh (RECSA) project was organize a training on “Climate change impacts on water and food systems and their adaptation” at Patuakhali Science and Technology University on 21-23 March 2022. Prof. Dr. Swadesh Chandra Samanta, Honorable Vice-Chancellor, PSTU adorned the chair of chief guest at the opening of the training programme. Prof. Mohammad Ali, Dean, Faculty of Agriculture and Prof. Dr. Md. Fazlul Hoque, Dean, Postgraduate Studies (PGS) was presented here as a Special Guests. Prof. Dr. Fulco Ludwig, Project Director, WUR , was presented as keynote speaker at the opening session of the training program.

Prof. Dr. Md. Alamgir Kabir, Project Director, PSTU was preside over the training workshop. Certificates are distributed among the participants on successful completion of the three days training. The Workshop was conducted by Prof. Dr. Md. Ektear Uddin, Project Coordinator of RECSA.

The CSA bangla conference will be held on February 15,16 and 17, 2023 at the PSTU. The program will appear as soon as it is known.

In a 2-week training course at the WUR , 6 postdocs gained a lot of knowledge about CSA practices and the education about this. The aim is to translate the acquired knowledge into education appropriate to PSTU. The post-docs who participated in this are: Gopal Saha, Shariful Islam, Shah Md. Asraful Islam, Khadiza Khatun, Shaikh Abdullah Al Mamun Hossain and  Md. Masudur Rahman.