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WelCome to Germplasm Center
A germplasm is a collection of genetic resources for an organism and for plants, the germplasm may be stored as a seed collection or, for trees, in a nursery.
BAU Germplasm Centre (GPC) is the largest depository/germplasm centre of fruits, medicinal plants and agroforestry in Bangladesh as well as second largest in the world next to Miami, USA. Initially the project was established on 1 acre of land in 1991 funded by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) with the mission of establishing a seed bank and extension of technologies among the farmers with Prof Dr. M. A. Rahim as the Project Director. At present BAU-Germplasm Centre occupies 32 acres of land.
About 8500 thousand mother plants of 161 species have been planted and being maintained in this Germplasm Centre including 235 varieties of mango, 27 varieties of litchi, 57 varieties of guava, 48 varieties of lemon, 94 accession of jackfruit, 67 species of minor fruits, 52 species of exotic fruits collected from 47 countries, and 97 species of medicinal plants.
