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Safe food production: Nayakrishi farmers’ perception

14Mar

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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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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)....

19Dec

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Community Seed Wealth Center and Gumat are disaster shelters

Nayakrishi Andolon Mehinoor Khatun ( 33) is living in the village of Bantiar,Shahjadpur, Sirajgonj. She has two sons and a daughter. Her husband Sontesh Miah is a tuberculosis patient and can not do any work. They have 87 decimal of cultivable land. They also have one cow, two goats, six ducks and six hens. She moved with two sons (9 and 6 year s) and a daughter (1) along with 3 species of seeds, one cow, two goats, six ducks and six chickens in Seeds center and Gumat (Cow shelter) during flood in 2007. This Seed wealth center and Gumat were established by UBINIG for sheltering flood affected people and livestock. Mehinoor Begum said that the Seed wealth center and Gumat were of great help for them during flood. After recession of flood water they planted seeds that they had kep...

19Dec

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Local varieties of rice are environment friendly

Nayakrishi Andolon Alimuddin Sarker (45), son of Jasimuddin Sarker are living at Dewli, Tangail. He is a farmer, He has one acre of land. There are five members in his family including two daughters and a son. In most of the years their crops in the field are inundated. They grow boro and amon rice every year. Amon rice is vulnerable to flooding by the Dhaleshwari river. Consequently they run short of food grains for six months. They apply chemical fertilizer, pesticides and other inputs with the expectation for a better harvest. But the crops in the amon rice raised with HYVs seeds are damaged by the flood in most of the years. Under these circumstances, recently there was a meeting on Water and food security at the residence of Mr. Chand, Memebr, Dewli Union Parished. Jamal at...

19Dec

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“Seed is my dream”, Nahar Begum

Nayakrishi Andolon Nahar Begum (50), W/O - Mojibor Rahman, Village: Higanagar Barobari, Union: Attia, Upazila: Delduar, District: Tangail My parents live in the same village. They have three acres of cultivable land. They have been farming on their own land I used to attend agricultural and other household activities with my parents so long I was with them before my marriage. My major involvements there included seed sowing, post harvest processing and storage of seeds. I also enjoyed rice husking with my mother. After marriage I was happy to see the same set of agricultural environment in my husband’s residence. My husband has two acres of cultivable land. He cultivates his own land. I learnt the art of agriculture from my mother. Now I have been practicing the same with my mot...

19Dec

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Local Rice Varieties Ensures Food and Feed Security

Nayakrishi Andolon Ainal Hoque (42),Delduar, Tangail inherited 90 decimal land from his father. He has been living a happy life with two sons anda daughter. His residence is on the bank of the Dhaleshwari river. The river water flows over his land in every rainy season. As a result there is regular siltation on land. Rabi crops grow well in the locality. Broadcast amon rice varieties including Chamardkigha, Hijaldisha, Laldhepa, Patishail, Patjag have been grown. The rice plants would grow about three feet tall before the entry of the flood water in the field in the rainy season. The plants would grow fast keeping pace with the rising flood water. There would be no loss of yield of rice due to flood. Rather it would increase yield by siltation on the base of the rice plants. A f...