Md. Muktar Hossain from Horirampur, Manikgani Fifty-five-year-old Rabeya Begum lives with her husband, Ahmed Ali, only son, daughter in law and one beloved grandson. She hails from a very poor family living on a remote island char (sandbars that emerge as islands within the river channel or as attached land to the river banks) […]
The transformation of Rabeya’s house into seed store Read More »
By Silvanus Lamin We know and even witness that women account for a substantial proportion of the agricultural labor force. They including men play role in food production including doing all households works which are not economically measured. Facilitating development activities in different parts of Bangladesh BARCIK has accumulated the experiences about the contributions of
Rural Women Day: We keep the culture of seed conservation Read More »
By Mohiranjan Mondal, Field Facilitator, PORIBESH project, BARCIK-Shyamnagar Resource Centre, Satkhira Often we talk a lot about goats and seeds’ impact on a person’s life; especially those who are living in extreme poverty in places like Bangladesh. Although, goat often considered inferior to other livestock, goats and seeds are valuable to rural women with limited resources
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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
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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 »
Amrito Sarkar from Rajshahi Farmer Mohammad Mukid Dulal from Syedpur village in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi participated in the program with 10 kg of Jhingashail seeds. He will deposit this 10 kg of seeds at Barind seed bank of Tanore upazila of the district and in exchange will take 10 kg Dadkani variety seeds to
Local seed exchange among farmers Read More »
Gazi Al Imran from Shyamnagar, Satkhira The farmers in the coastal region of Bangladesh practiced sustainable agriculture and conserved the seeds of all t local varieties in their house. These seeds were conserved in different earthen pots to farm in the year as well as exchanged them with others. But today the culture of seed
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By Mononjay Mandal from Satkhira ‘If you want to get good yield, you need to have suitable and healthy seeds. Good yields can never be expected unless one has good, matured and quality seed. If the seed immature, then no matter how much we care, the crop yield will not come in accordance with our
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