By Shimul Biswas, Rasheda Akhtar, Beauty Sarkar, Rina Shikder and Ananya Akhtar from Manikganj. The house of farmer Madan Kumar is filled with natural elements. The birds take shelter on the trees surrounding his house and they wake him up early in the morning! The 58 years old farmer of Atakaria village in Singair upazila […]
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Amreto Kumar Sarker from Rajshahi Established in 2015 by enthaustic farmers at Dubail village of Panchandar union, Tanor upazila, under Rajshahi district, the Barendra Farmers Seed Bank serves as a vital repository for endangered rice land races and other native crop species. Its inception aimed to address the farming challenges in the drought-prone High
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Abdur Rob, from Netrakona In order to address climate change impacts and reduce the rice production cost, Abdul Hakim, the president of the farmers’ organization in Sadhupara Union of Tarakanda Upazila in Mymensingh district, has been conducting on farm experimentation with 20 rice landraces on his own land since 2009. This problem solving on-farm
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Mukter Hossain from Harirampur, Manikganj Harirampur Upazila is a disaster prone area. The people living in the char (Low lying wetland) face climate induced disasters such as floods, river erosion, heavy rains and less precipitation every year posing risks to their life. The disasters damage crops, wash away homes and even take away life sometimes.
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By Md. Ahidur Rahman from Netrakona If climate justice is ensured it will reflects in the decline rate of climate induced disasters and this will impact of lands, agriculture and other aspects of the nature. Disasters often damage crops, deteriorate the structure of landscape and sometimes contaminate the fresh water sources of living being. Farmers
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Shahidul Islam and Amreto Kumar Sarkar from Rajshahi Noor Mohammad is a self-educated farmer from the drought-prone Barind Tract region. He has been involved in agriculture and agricultural research since childhood. Barind Tract region has experienced more heat and drought day by day. Again, due to lack of ground water, agriculture is disrupted in this
About the potential drought tolerant variety ‘Noor Rice-1’ Read More »
Arjun Hajong from Kalmakanda Netrakona Narayan Hajong is a creative farmer of Lengura union of Kalmakanda upazila of Netrakona district. He is 60 years old. His family consists of 2 sons, husband, wife and grandchildren. He grows vegetables around in different seasons adopting organic agriculture. After meeting the needs of the family, he sold the
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Beauty Sorkar from Singhair, Manikganj, BARCIK and farmers’ organization of Nayabari organized a field day recently in Singair upazila. The field day was organized to examine and exhibit the crops cultivated by framers through their farmers’ led applied research initiatives. More than half a hundred farmers from 12 villages of Baira, Baldhara, Jamsa and Talibpur
‘Seed is our existence’ Read More »
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
Earlier we had many seeds, there were many varieties Read More »
Subir Kumar Sarkar from Ghior, Manikganj Agriculture plays an important role in the development of Bangladesh. People in rural Bangladesh hugely depends on agriculture for their livelihood. This sector also still makes mentionable contribution in the economy of Bangladesh. Many people, particularly in the rural areas take agriculture as their main occupation. Farmer Md. Emdadul
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