Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) has developed an app for the first time to protect rice plants from various types of diseases.
The rice solution app will identify different rice plant diseases and provide advice by sending pictures of the affected plants on mobile apps from the spot.
Agriculture Minister Dr M Abdur Razzaque inaugurated the rice solution mobile app while attending the six-day annual research review workshop held at the BRRI on Saturday, BSS reported.
"The country's 10-18 per cent rice output becomes wastage every year due to various reasons including different pest attacks," the minister said, adding that the app will work as an important tool for providing information on area-wise rice pests and extreme disease outbreaks along with carrying out research programmes by the scientists as per need basis.
The app will automatically provide advisory suggestions to the farmers after assessing the problem received as input through the apps and then as a result, the farmers will get their solution instantly staying in the field by saving their time, expenditure and travel cost.
With the supervision of BRRI's ICT cell, the app has been developed with the assistance of One ICT Software Company under a mobile game and application skilled development (second amendment) project run by the ICT division.
State Minister for Planning Dr Shamsul Alam and BRRI Director General Dr M Shahjahan Kabir, among others, attended the function.
