bamboo binding

UBINIG || Saturday 05 June 2021 || Location: Bantiar, Sonatoni, Shahjadpur, Sirajganj Project: Nayakrishi farmers effort to combat disaster (river erosion, flood, drought and water logging) in the context of climate change and natural calamities. The work for construction of bamboo binding was initiated on 27 May, 2021 after a series of discussions involving farmers, teachers, UP members and traders on natural calamities and river erosion. Every year the farmers in these char lands, have to face natural calamities and river erosion. For many years, UBINIG with support from Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has been working with the Nayakrishi farmers in severely river erosion vulnerable area through construction of bamboo binding and helping resisting ri...

Jahangir Alam Jony Chatka ismade from bamboos to tame river, an effective but simple indigenous innovation of the local community to reduce river erosion that also helps in reclaiming land. The bamboo binding resists soil erosion, turn silt, deposit soil formation and helps accretion of land. The farmers of Sonatoni union have taken this innovative initiative to check river erosion. Chatka is simple to make, but it works. This is a bamboo binding - an indigenous practice that redirects the water flow of the river. ‘Chatka’ is the local name and hard to translate. The important feature of Chatka is that it is a community-based approach. The merit and advantage of the approach is well-known in different Jamuna Chars and Island. The main purpose of this kind of bi...

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Construction of Bamboo Binding -Resisting River Erosion

Chatka: Community Ingenuity Checking River Erosion