BanglaCapsule | Agriculture in Bangladesh Timeline  

1938 Bengal Agricultural Institute, the oldest agricultural institute in Bangladesh and South Asia, was established.
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1970 Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), formerly known as the East Pakistan Rice Research Institute (EPRRI), was established at Joydebpur, a small township 36 km north of the capital city Dhaka.
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2010 Maqsudul Alam, a Bangladeshi professor of microbiology at the University of Hawaii, USA in collaboration with the departments of bio-technology and bio-Chemistry at Dhaka University had successfully sequenced genomes of jute, opening up newer potentials for its production, conservation and characterisation.
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