By Shahidul Islam from Rajshahi Seed is the heart of agriculture. Before the advent of modern energy intensive agriculture farmers conserve seeds and exchange seeds with their neighboring farmers. But the modern agriculture has snatched the seed rights of the farmers and has been doing seed business where farmers have to buy seeds and other […]
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By Biswajit Mandol, Gazi Imran and Bablu Juwarder Bangladesh’s south-west coastal region is most threatened by the negative effects of climate change and Shyamnagar Upazila of Satkhira district is among the most extremely affected areas. Natural disasters such as riverbank erosion, cyclones, salinity, floods and tides are common in the region. Due to natural disasters,
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By Silvanus Lamin 50 youths from different regions of Bangladesh expressed solidarity with the climate struggle of the communities in the coast while participating in a 4-day workshop arranged by BARCIK in Satkhira and visiting different climate affected villages of the coast. 50 youths from Rajshahi, Netrakona, Manikganj, Satkhira and Dhaka visited 6 villages of
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By Silvanus Lamin BARCIK along with its associate organizations such as farmer, women, youth and occupational groups’ organizations and associations in 5 working areas (Dhaka, Netrakona, Satkhira, Rajshahi, Manikgonj) observed the international women’s day yesterday 8 March, 2023. The theme of this year’s international women’s day is DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality. People
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By Md. Fazlul Haque and Shiuly Mondal from Satkhira Schools are one of the best places for cultivating environmental awareness early on. The earlier the students learn about the environment, the sooner they will be able to contribute to safeguarding it. Bearing this in mind, with the financial supports from NETZ-Bangladesh, BARCIK has been implementing a
Students’ forum planted 385 Seedlings at homesteads and surroundings Read More »
Ayesha Tabassum from Rajshahi Women are such a community about which songs, poems, novels, have been created. Women are sometimes our mothers, sometimes our sisters, sometimes our spouses and sometimes our life partners. These women co-exist with us in our society in various forms. Therefore, we should not show discrimination and negligence towards the women.
Let’s extend cooperation to Women for the establishment of their rights Read More »
Ayesha Tabassum from Rajshahi Trees are our very beneficial friends. Along friends we need also trees to help us survive on this earth. Trees are closely related to our breath as they provide us oxygen. Most of the food and daily necessities in our daily life come from trees. There is a tradition in the
Trees have life; they are not out of feelings Read More »
Muktar Hossain, Harirampur, Manikganj A safe food festival was recently organized by Harihardiya Farmers Organization in Harirhadiya village of Lechraganj Union in Harirampur Upazila. Nannu Pramanik, Panel chairman of Lechhraganj Union and president of Harihardia Farmers’ Association, presided over the food festival. Farmers displayed stalls in the food festival with all the foods and materials
Everyone should come forward to keep food safe Read More »
Satyaranjan Saha Harirampur from Manikganj `Soil is our mother, protecting the health of the soil is our responsibility. If the soil is healthy, everyone’s life will be saved, everyone will be well. Therefore, it is the responsibility of us all to take initiative to keep the soil healthy and sound. We can keep the soil
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From Jahangir Alam Satkhira, An urban dialogue was held in Satkhira to demand policy formulation for adaptation and mitigation to address the impacts of climate change. The dialogue was organized by the Education Culture and Diversity Protection Team of Satkhira and BARCIK in Public Library on 28 November, 2022. In the dialogue, the speakers
Policy formulation demanded to address climate change Read More »