Hundreds overcome poverty in char areas
Most people achieved success thru farming groundnut, vegetables on sandy barren char land in river basins
BSS
Thousands of extremely poor people living at 12 remote char unions of Sadar and Raipura upazilas of the district have successfully defeated poverty by various income-generating activities, reports BSS.
Local people said most of the people here have achieved success through farming groundnut, sweet potato and various vegetables on vast tracts of sandy barren char land in Meghna and Arial khan river basins.
Beside, a number of poor people living in the char villages of the district have also achieved self-reliance through rearing of livestock on char land, fish farming and duck rearing in the rivers, they said.
The local Agricultural Extension Department provided training to the farmers of char villages on groundnut, sweet potato and various vegetables cultivation. The DAE also provided them with seeds and pesticides free of cost. Currently, the people of char villages of the district are leading a completely changed life with achieving hygienic sanitation and access to pure drinking water, reducing of malnutrition to their children, women and pregnant women.
Their children are now going schools and madrasas regularly.
Deputy Director of the DAE Lotafat Hossain told BSS that farmers of the locality could bring revolutionary changes in their life after getting trainings as well as assistance from them.
