The University Overview:
Agriculture is the most important sector of the economy of Bangladesh. Nearly half of its GDP comes from the agricultural sector. This sector is composed of crop, livestock, fisheries and forestry sub-sectors. Although Bangladesh has an agrarian economy, the share of agriculture to GDP has been decreasing over the last few years. Significant technological development has been made in recent decades leading to increase in agricultural production, but this is not sufficient to meet the increasing demand of food and agro-based industry of the country.
Further improvement in agriculture sector demands highly skilled and technically qualified manpower to run the agricultural research, extension and development activities for increasing food grain, livestock, and poultry and fish production. The Government of Bangladesh has put in place a comprehensive array of policies aimed at bringing socio-economic improvement to the people of Bangladesh.
Sylhet Agricultural University has officially started on 2 November, 2006 to achieve the objectives of accelerating agricultural development especially for haor, baor, plain and hilly lands in the north-east region of the country. The main task of University is to tone up the quality and standard of higher agricultural education and to produce first grade agriculturist, agricultural scientists and technologists for shouldering the responsibilities of agricultural development of the greater Sylhet region as well as the country.
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