Growing aromatic rice in the polders of coastal Bangladesh

From left, Robert Zeigler,, director general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI; http://irri.org); Tim Russell, chief of party of CSISA-Bangladesh; Manoranjan Mondal, IRRI project scientist for the Polder Community Water Management Project; and Paul Fox, IRRI representative for Bangladesh. discuss aromatic rice varieties being experimentally grown by Bangladeshi farmers in Polder 30 at Hogobunia, Batiaghata, Khluna in the coastal zone of the country. The Aromatic Rice Production and Dissemination project is being conducted with farmers by the Cereal Systems for South Asia in Bangladesh (CSISA-Bangladesh; http://csisa.org/csisa-bangladesh). In this video, Dr. Russell explains the objectives of the project in this video: