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Dr. Md. Harunur Rashid
Director, SAC

Director’s Message

SAARC Agriculture Centre (SAC) is the Regional Centre of excellence dedicated to accelerate and promote thematic discussions and capacity building in agriculture and allied sectors for ensuring livelihood, food and nutritional security in South Asia. Realizing the immense contribution of agriculture over the lives and livelihood of the people of South Asia, the Apex Body of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) established the SAC as the first Centre to cater the farming-sector needs of its Member States and currently the Centre has earned the prestige and honour to become the “Centre of Excellence in South Asia.”

The SAC is relentlessly working to document, disseminate and promote farmer-friendly technologies in the broad fields of crops, livestock and fisheries after due contemplation to environment, emerging pest and transboundary diseases, food security and safety, climate change, and finally the consumer health and wellbeing for the regional growth and prosperity. In this direction, the SAC is currently working hard to