OUR FELLOWS
Luftun Nahar, raised close to the capital of Bangladesh, is married to an agriculturalist with whom she has a two-year-old daughter. “I grew up in a hard-working family. My mother didn’t have much schooling, but her dream was to make sure all of her children got a good education—she didn’t wear nice clothing, but put all of her money toward our education,” she recalls. During her undergraduate degree, she tutored two students to help financially.
Their management practices are not good,” she remarks. “They preserve seed, but they don’t do it well. The germination and vigor of the seeds are low. The farmers work hard, but they are not achieving maximum yields from their farming.” She is committed to helping these farmers.
Field of Research
It is Nahar’s dream to devote a part of her life to the development of rice research in her country by introducing new technologies that will be eco-friendly as well as cost saving for farmers.