Nayakrishi – Ubinig

Nayakrishi Andolon: `A Short Introducton

26Nov

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Nayakrishi Andolon: `A Short Introducton

Nayakrishi Andolon CULTIVATING ‘ANANDA’: JOY OF FARMING AND HEALTHY LIVING Nayakrishi Andolon (New Agriculture Movement) is the farmer-led movement in Bangladesh for Shohoj way to Ananda, or simply, joyful living through the practice of biodiversity-based ecological agriculture. Nayakrishi Andolon represents peasant’s resistance against the corporate takeover of global seed, food, and health chain, an assertion that it is the farming communities of small holdings, not the multinational corporations, that feed us. The immediate ecological management of food, nutrition, and health directly constitute the biological foundation of the local communities and dictates them to avoid various fictitious notions of 'development' instead of what they must deal with as real problem. Farm...

17Jan

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Joyful mixed crops in winter

UBINIG Nayakrishi villages are very colourful during winter season. From the beginning of the winter season as early as December- the Bangla month of Poush, the fields are yellow with mustard crops. While commercial mustard growing is done mostly as a monocrop, Nayakrishi farmers have a mix of vegetables and spices. Cultivated crops of radish, onion, garlic – and a combination of uncultivated partner crops are mixed and grown, so that different crops do not compete for the same nutrition from the soil and are designed to prevent pest attacks. This creates a beautiful biodiverse field. Mixed cropping or multicropping is one of the ten principles of Nayakrishi farming. This practice mirrors the diversity of the forest and retains and enhances soil fertility and productivity. It i...

Crop Diversity in Nayakrishi Farmers’ field in Delduar, Tangail

28Mar

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Crop Diversity in Nayakrishi Farmers’ field in Delduar, Tangail

Dr. M.A. Sobhan and Fahima Khatun Liza There is significant natural variability of plants and animals in Delduar Upazila, Tangail district. Farmers have been growing varieties of crops based on topography of land and matching seasons. There are crops round the year either on the plains, high, medium, low lands or in the homestead areas. Men and women both contribute their best for maximum agricultural outputs. However, women play the key role of seed collection, drying, cleaning and preserving. The maintenance of seed wealth is ensured in the hands of the women. The farmer use organic manure for raising crops. The Nayakrish farmers grow season based crops. They grow different crops in rabi, kharif-1 and kharif-2 seasons. However, there are some varities of vegetables round the yea...

Safe food production: Nayakrishi farmers’ perception

14Mar

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Nayakrishi, Stories of Nayakrishi Farmers

Safe food production: Nayakrishi farmers’ perception

Nayakrishi Andolon || Monday 14 March 2016 On 9th March, thirtytwo farmers, daimas, poultry keepers, students, women, vegetable traders of five villages of Atia Union of Delduar Upazilla in Tangail me in a meeting held in Nanduria village to discuss how to assess food safety of the crops they produce. They are very active farmers growing food crops without use of any chemical fertilizers and pesticides for over 20 years. They grow various crops including cereals, pulses, vegetables, oil seeds and fruits. Cereals include rice, wheat, barley and maize; pulses such as black gram, grass pea, lentil and pea; oil seeds such as rye, mustard and sesame; vegetables including okra, amaranth, potato, sweet gourd, ash gourd, Indian spinach, spinach, tomato, snake gourd, sponge gourd, string...

Poor family receiving food support during flood

26Feb

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Poor family receiving food support during flood

UBINIG Jahanara Begum Krisnapur village received food support Emergency Support to Flood Affected People. Period: August December 2015; Supported By: Primate’s World Relief & Development Fund Jahanara Begum (52), is a poor widow of village Dakhin Krishnapur. Her husband died four years ago. Her eldest daughter was married recently. During the flood, she was living with one son and four daughters. The only earning member of the family was her son who is a daily wage worker. His income is too small to run the family. They pass their time with great hardship. Under these circumstances, the flood during June-July, 2015 was a serious blow to their life and livelihood as they did not any savings to buy food. “Not a single house in the village was saved from the flood. Ther...

Farmers received seed support after the flood

26Feb

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Farmers received seed support after the flood

UBINIG Mix Crop field. Chili, Amaranthas, Frech Bean in Krishnapur. Farmer Oziullah happy to see his yeild. Emergency Support to Flood Affected People. Period: August December 2015; Supported By: Primate’s World Relief & Development Fund Waziullah (60), village: Uttar Krishnapur, is a farmer. He is the head of a family of nine members including his wife, 4 sons and 3 daughters-in-Law. He owns a homestead of 60 decimals and cultivated land of 80 decimals. This year he has crops on 180 decimals including 80 decimals of leased in land and 80 decimals of his own land. He has grown Boro rice and vegetables. In addition to raising crops in the field, he has also grown vegetables and fruits in the homestead including common bean, water gourd, papaya, banana, plum, mango, jac...

26Feb

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Farmers benefitted with seeds

UBINIG Farmer Nur khatun in her Mix crop field, potato, French bean, Radish,Sweet gourd. Harvested French Bean Emergency Support to Flood Affected People. Period: August December 2015; Supported By: Primate’s World Relief & Development Fund Noor Khatun (55) wife of Yakub Ali (63), village Baderddan Kata, is a seed recipient after flood. She owns a family of four members including her husband and two sons. She has a homestead area of 40 decimals 60 decimals of cultivable land of her own in the field. This year she has cultivated an area of 140 decimals including her own 60 decimals and leased in 80 decimals. She has grown winter vegetables. In addition to her crops in the field, she has also raised varieties of vegetables and fruits in the homestead area including comm...

19Dec

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Babupur: A Nayakrishi Village

Nayakrishi Andolon The Settlement: Babupur village belongs to Deoli union, Delduar upazila of Tangail district. The village lies about 4 km south of the district headquarters of Tangail. It is about 2 km west of Delduar upazila Town. The Dhaleshari River passes by 6 km west of the village. Alongijani, a rivulet of the Dhaleshsari passes by the east side of the village. The area is generally served by seasonal flooding in normal years. The homestead areas stand on raised land above the normal flood level. The villagers have small houses with tin, bamboo or jute stick walls and tin roofs on homestead land. The homestead areas are generally planted with a number of trees including juckfruit, mango, banana, bamboo, etc. Household and Population: Babupur has a population of...

19Dec

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Water-logging tolerant rice ensures food sovereignty of Shilpi Akter

Nayakrishi Andolon Shilpi Akter is a marginal farmer. She lives at Dewli village, of Delduar upazila in Tangail district. She has a family of four members including her husband, Mobarak Hosain (45) and two daughters. They own 75 decimals of cultivable land. They live in the lower Jamuna flood plain area. Flood and inundation are their natural companions. Shilpi Akter mentioned their fields are inundated for about six months. The land remains fallow in the rainy season in most of the years. In the rabi (winter) season they grow rabi crops including mustard, pulses, foxtail millet and vegetables. Mobarak Hosain, husband of Shilpi Akter mentioned that even in the rainy season Chamara and Digha varieties of rice would grow luxuriantly. For last 8-10 years, after the introduction of ...

19Dec

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Kamola Rani Mondol, Struggling for water

Nayakrishi Andolon Kamala Rani Mondol(34), Nallapara, Delduar, Tangail can only sign her name. She has five members in her family with husband (45), a farmer; a daughter (16); a son (13) and her octogenarian mother-in-law. Her children go to school. She owns seven-decimal homestead and eight decimal crop lands. A functional landless, the family sharecrops on 80 decimals of crop land. She has tin-shed house. She raises two cows, two ducks and 15 fowls. Out of about 100 families in the village, 25 are Hindu who inhabits Dakhinpara (southern part) of Nallapara village. Only one of these Hindu families has a tube well. There is no ditch or pond around. There is a ditch about 1.5 kilometers away from the village. The ditch has water for about six months a year (during the rainy season)....