Md. Ashfaque Abid is a student from Bangladesh participating in this global event. He is thankful to the IAEA and Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission for the opportunity. He hopes attendees will enjoy his presentation on how nuclear science and technology can contribute to achieving food security. Nuclear techniques are being used in Bangladesh and around the world in areas like plant and animal breeding, soil and water management, and pest control to increase agricultural production and ensure stable food supplies. Through further application of nuclear techniques, Bangladesh aims to achieve food security and meet development goals.

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Abid BANGLADE
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2. from
I am Md. Ashfaque Abid , a
participant from Bangladesh. I
am Studying in Notre Dame
College. I am very thankful to the
IAEA and Bangladesh Atomic
Energy Commission for giving me
the opportunity to participate in
this global event. I hope you will
enjoy the presentation that has
been made by me.

3. International Atomic Energy Agency
CONTRIBUTION OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY IN ACHIEVING FOOD
SECURITY
Atoms for Peace and Development

5. The History of the Earth

6. A billion Year Old Earth
By 3.5 billion of years ago,
there was life on Earth.

8. In the early stage , human lived in the
lowest level of Science and Technology.
They lived like other animals and they
used to live in cave.

9. Human used to make weapons with
stones, woods and other things and
they used those weapons for different
purposes.

10. •Human discovered
agriculture.
•The way of cultivating
different crops was
found after a few years.
•Population was
increasing day by day.
• Human started
emphasizing the term

11. Human discovered fire. This
was the beginning of
Civilization.
(N:B:Aguner chobita lagbe .

12. As the necessity is the mother of all
inventions, human started discovering
many things according to their
necessity. The invention of wheel was
opened the door of Technology.

13. Science has become an inevitable part of human life.
Practices of Science and Technology makes human the most
powerful creature
In a word, Mankind has changed their destiny through the
practices of science.

14. Science and Technology had been
enriched day by day and its
results were making impacts in
every sphere of life.

15. NUCLEAR
SCIENCE &
TECHNOLOGY

16. NST had been started its journey form
the discovery of radioactivity by Henry
Becquerel in 1896. Radioactivity has
been started using in a large scale in
research, medicine, food and
Agriculture and many other fields.

17. On November 8, 1895, physicist Wilhelm Conrad
Röntgen (1845-1923) becomes the first person to
observe X-rays. It is being used largely in medical
sector and scientific researches.

18. •Otto Hahn and Strassman
discovered Nuclear Fission
Reaction in 1938.
• The field, Nuclear Power began its
journey.
• Albert Einstein’s mass energy
equivalence formula(E=mc2) played

20. Journey for
Establishing
Peace

21. UNITED NATIONS
Journey for Establishing Peace
After visualizing the consequences of
WW-2 United Nations (UN) was being
established in 1945 to keep peace and
harmony in all over the world.

22. To promote the peaceful use,
of NST, IAEA was established in
1957. Today 173 countries
including Bangladesh, are
member of IAEA.

23. To ensure safe and peaceful use of NST, IAEA
was established. IAEA has been working on its
motto since then. Many technical cooperation
programs are taken by them to promote NST
among its member states in the field of
Health, Food and agriculture,
Environment, Energy.

24. In order to ensure
peace, many
challenges has been
risen in front of the
United Nations.
Those are:
1. Extreme Poverty
2. Hunger
3. Climate Change
Diseases(e.g. COVID-
19, SARS, HIV,

25. In order to solve the rising problems UN are
running some program for particular countries
and regions. UN are taking worldwide program
too. The MDGs and the SDGs are two notable
missions of UN which have been taken for all
over the world .

26. Millennium Development Goals are 8
interlinked goals which were taken in
2000 and was expected to achieve by
2015.

27. SDGs are 17 interlinked goals and these goals
were taken in 2015 and expected to achieve by
2030. The goals that are necessary for
sustainable development are included in SDG

28. The 2nd goal of SDGs is focusing
explicitly in removing hunger from
the world and ensuring food
security by 2030

29. •Achieving SDG 2 can help
in achieving other goals.
Those goals are:
•SDG 1(poverty reduction)
•SDG 6(clean water and
sanitation)
• SDG 12(Responsible
Production and
consumptions)
•SDG 13(Climate Action)

30. Ensuring food security
for us is a challenge for
us because of many
reasons:
1. Population Growth
2. Climate Change
3. Transboundary

32. Using NST in the field of
agriculture is making great
impacts on ensuring Food Security.

33. In order to ensure Food
Security, NST is being used in
these fields:
1. Mutation Breeding
2. Animal productivity and
Health
3. Improved Soil and Water
Balance
4. Pest Management
5. Food Preservation
6. Soil erosion

34. Mutation Breeding
Cobalt 60 (Co-60) isotopes is being used in
mutation breeding. Nuclear is being used in
mutation breeding in order to:
A. produce climate proof crops
B. quality crops and livestock products
C. produce crops which is able to grow in salty
soil
D. selective breeding creates disease resistant
plants with greater nutritional value.

35. Animal Health and Productivity
Healthy and productive livestock helps
to ensure Food Security. Nuclear
techniques are used to improve
livestock growth, reproductive efficienc
and disease resistance.

36. Pest Management
•Sterile insect technique (SIT) uses
gamma radiation to sterilize large
populations of insects.
• SIT is being used not only in Food
Security and Safety but also in Human
Health.
• The Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly)
and test fly have been successfully used

37. Improving Soil and Water Balance
•Neutron meters improve irrigation practices
that help conserve water and protect vulnerable
land.
• Energy getting form Nuclear Power plant can
be used in Irrigation.
•Tagging fertilizers with radioisotopes can
determine how plants are using nutrients.
•Nuclear techniques help increasing crop yields
and help determining which plants to grow in
areas with less available water.

38. Food Preservation:
Radiation is being used in Microbial
Decontamination .
 Radiation is being used in food
irradiation and irradiated foods can be
stored for an extended period without
refrigeration, which increases their
availability in underdeveloped countries.
 Radiation is being used in Shelf Life
Extension.

39. Soil Erosion:
Soil erosion measurement can be
possible Using Gamma
spectrometry.

40. At present, the average of food consumption per person
is 2800 kcal/person/day. According to the FAO , food
production for human consumption, per capita is
approximately 460 kg per year in poor regions and 900
kg in rich countries. But we don’t want this large
difference food production between poor and rich
countries .

41. A lot of people in developing and under developed countries are undernourished.
They don’t get enough nutrition as well as enough food. Many African countries are
facing great food crisis. Many African And Sub-Saharan countries are facing famine.

42. . In order to ensure food security we have to
increase production. For this ,we have used
many methods. Using NST in agricultural
field has been shown great impact

44. USES OF NST IN FOOD
AND AGRICULTURE IN
BANGLADESH

45. In Bangladesh several projects are going on with the
collaboration of IAEA in the field of agriculture in
order to ensure food security
Those projects are going on in this areas:
 Food Irradiation and Preservation
 Plant Mutations.
 Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
 Biodosimetry
 Cattle Breeding
 Food Safety and Authenticity
 Sterile Insect Technique(SIT).

46. Note: Photos from the Diary of Atomic Energy

47. Bangladeshi’s are respectively known for their fondness to rice and fish . Rice is a
must in our everyday meal . The per capita consumption of rice is 468.9 grams
which is higher in respect of other crops. The average rice yield in the country is
2.43 t/ha which is very low comparing to other rice growing countries in the
world. We have to increase the production. So many techniques need to be
implemented. NST has shown great success in increasing food production. BINA,
BAEC and other organizations are running projects in the field of agriculture with
the cooperation of IAEA.
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48. By using Nuclear Science and Technology ,
Bangladesh increased its rice production from
26.8 million tons in 2003-04 to 33.8 million
tons in 2012 -13.

49. Bangladeshi nuclear scientists able to add more nutritional values in rice. It helps
a lot to eradicate malnutrition from the country.
Note: Photos of different nutritonal element and rice

50. Using NST also increases the production of pulse, wheat and many other
crops in my country, Bangladesh. It is expected that after few years we can
export these crops and this will help a lot to boost our agriculture based
economy.
Note: photos of pulse & wheat.

51. By using NST, we got success in increasing the production of the
crops. Now , NST is also being used in animal sector in our
country . It’s believed that by using NST in a large scale we could
ensure food security in recent years and achieve the 2030
agenda. NST is being used with great speed in agriculture and
we can hope that Bangladesh can be a exporter countries of rice
and this will boost our agricultural based economy.

52. In developing and underdeveloped countries, there are a lot of scopes of using NST in the field of
Food and Agriculture. As I am a Bangladeshi, scopes in Bangladesh are more visual than any other
countries. Recent days , NST is being used in animal sectors in my country, Bangladesh and expected
as a successful project as in rice production. If we can use all the scopes properly, definitely we will
be able to ensure Food Security to our people by 2030.

53. I think by increasing the use of Nuclear Science
and Technology and use all the scopes properly,
we can surely increase the production of agro
products ,ensure food security and achieve
agenda 2030 , “Zero Hunger”. Do you also think
as mine?

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