Innovation Collaboration Education
- Productivity
- Economics
- Environment
- Nutrition
- Social
- IRRI
- BRAC
- BARC
- BWDB
- IWM
- DAE
- Local Univ.
- Univ. Arkansas
- Farmers
- Postgraduates (MS, PhD)
- Government officials
- Scholars and Extension
- Local extension officials
Information Evaluation Communication
BANGLADESH
Rice -
Fallow
Systems5
2
1
6
3
4
Natural Resources
- Comm. Water Mgmt.
- Crop Diversification
- Improved Drainage
Cropping Systems
(Rice-based Systems)
- Climate resilient and
nutritious Rice
- New Dry Season Crops
- Improved Agronomy
Livestock / Aquatic Sys.
- Multi Purpose Crops
- Rice + Fish Systems
- Small Scale Poultry
Human Condition
- Human Nutrition
- Human Drudgery
- Social Cohesion
Mechanization
- Rice Transplanter
- Rice Harvester
- Power Seeder (PTOS)
Geospatial and Models
- Mapping Polders
- Climate-Crop Modelling
- G x E x M
1
2
3
4
5
6
Impacts:
Number of Technologies: 6
Long-term Training: 14 (9 MS; 5 PhD)
Short-term Training: >5000
+50%Yield; +25% Income; +30% Nutrition
Gender • Youth • Environment • Data Management

BANGLADESH
Rice -
Fallow
Systems
1
2
3
4
5
6
Technologies / Innovations:
Sustainable Intensification and
Systems Approaches
Natural Resource Management:
Community Water Management: Organizing and empowering community water
management in Polder communities; Diversification: Improving crop systems diversity and
increased cropping intensity to help increase overall productivity; Improved drainage:
Exploring and mapping watershed to introduce terminal drainage for rice for introduction of
dry season crops
Cropping Systems Management:
Climate resilient and nutritious rice varieties: Evaluating and promoting new flooding
tolerant and micronutrient (Zn) dense short-season rice varieties; New Dry Season Crops:
Evaluating and promoting promising dry season crops that will be suitable in rice fallows (e.g.
sunflower, maize, mung bean, and sesame); Improved Agronomy: Improved agronomic
package (e.g. planting, water, nutrient and pest management practices) for new varieties and
crop species.
Livestock/Aquatic Systems Management:
Multi-Purpose Crops: Evaluating impact of multi-purpose crops as animal feed; Rice + Fish
Systems: Promoting small and diverse fish species to enhance income and nutrition. Small
Scale Poultry: Introduced maize into the production system supporting upcoming small scale
poultry entrepreneurs.
Human Condition:
Human Nutrition: Improving nutritional awareness and emphasizing value of diversified
farming systems; Women’s Empowerment: Organizing women groups on community-based
fish/rice system; seed storage, and marketing sunflower oil; Social cohesion: Working with
community to educate and co-decide better ag practices; Learning Hubs and Platforms:
Creating learning hub/platform for knowledge sharing between all partners and farmers;
Human Drudgery: Mechanization to minimize human labor and drudgery.
Mechanization:
Mechanical Transplanter: Promoting use of mechanical transplanters for synchronized
planting at community scale; Mechanical Harvesting: Evaluating and promoting mechanical
harvesting of rice using reaper; Service Provision: Organizing and training farmers groups and
private entrepreneurs to provide services to farmers and larger communities.
Geospatial Tools:
Mapping Polders: Mapping and tracking cropland suitable for high yielding rice in Polders
using imaging technologies; Climate-Crop Modelling: Understanding the sustainability of the
introduced new cropping system and water resource management under future climates; G x
E x M: Understanding and modeling genotype (G) x environment (E) x management (M).

BANGLADESH
Long-termTraining: 14 Graduate Students
Sujat Ahmed (MS)
Agronomy
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University
Nasiba Aktar (Ph.D.)
Gender Research
Bangladesh Agriculture University
Mohommad Ali (MS)
Agricultural Economics
Bangladesh Agriculture University
Jayanta Bhattacharya (Ph.D.)
Agronomy, Patuakhali Science and
Technology University
Biswajit Baidya (MS)
Social Science/Water Governance
Khulna University
Umme Habiba (MS)
Agricultural Economics
Bangladesh Agriculture University
Monoj Biswas (MS)
Social Science/Food Security
Khulna University
Deb Kumar Nath (Ph.D.)
Water Governance
Bangladesh Agriculture University
Puja Roy (MS)
Social Science/Rice Marketing
Khulna University
Tapati Roy (MS)
Agronomy
Bangladesh Agriculture University
Priyanka Saha (MS)
Social Science/Tradeoff Analysis
Khulna University
Nibir Shah (Ph.D.)
Agronomy, Patuakhali Science and
Technology University
Shakhawat Hossain (MS)
Agronomy
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University
Aaron Shew (Ph.D.)
Environmental Dynamics
University of Arkansas, USA