Chatka: Community Ingenuity Checking River Erosion
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...
