Stop Tobacco Cultivation, Grow Food
UBINIG || Tuesday 30 March 2010
Don't poison Matamuhuri River by Tobacco Cultivation
Chakoria 24 March: Food and water crisis is going to be severe in areas where tobacco cultivation is expanding. Tobacco companies are facing resistance from the farming communities in old plantation areas and are moving to fertile lands such as the rich envivironmnet and ecology of the Matamuhuri complex. Unlike other rivers of Bangladesh, Matamuhuri is unique; it has originated within the political boundary of Bangladesh and created a fabulous environmental and ecological complex to support life forms that obviously includes farmers, fishers and diverse ethnic communities. Matamuhuri is the lifeblood for all. But these have already changed and situation is rapidly turning into a disaster.
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