Based on the results, the following means should be effective for improving HRD policy integration in agricultural sector:
1) providing a handsome amount of development budget at the sub-district agricultural office to develop human resources with maintaining the highest level of accountability and transference
2) formulating coherent strategies to build a effective cooperation, coordination and participation among stakeholders to understand the whole problem of HRD and conduct inclusive capacity building programmes
3) prioritising need based training programmes on the basis of farmer’s categories, farming ecosystems and geographical features such as land, climate, natural resources
4) initiating special HRD programmes for rural women, young farmers and smallholders.
5) mainstreaming HRD in governmental plans, programmes and policies as well as crafting
strategies according to the past experience and focusing futuristic vision. Finally, recognising the diversity of agro-ecological zones (30 in Bangladesh) and agricultural challenges emerging from the impact of climate change, “one-size-fits all solutions” will not work. Therefore, a range of socio-economically and technologically feasible human capacity building initiatives can play a leading role in promoting sustainable agricultural development in rice producing regions.