They are making organic manure and pesticides at home, setting an example of taking innovative approach in a simpler way.
Asadul Islam, 52, and his wife Yuthi Khatun, 45, are using indigenous method to make the organic manures and pesticides.
Yuthi Khatun said primarily they started producing the manure and pesticides taking ingredients from natural sources to meet their own requirement. But a few years later they started selling the excess in the market.
The couple is not only financially solvent; but they also train others to produce organic fertilisers and pesticides to get self-reliant. There is a dramatic change taking place in area of crop production without the use of chemicals.
At their Mallikpur village home in Kaliganj upazila of Jhenidah Asadul and Yuthi have dug few holes in the yard and put manger there to produce organic manure, pesticides and vitamins, which can help raise crop production in any situation.
Yuthi said it was five years ago when she her husband became helpless at the failure to prevent pest attack on brinjals (aubergine) they cultivated in their homestead.
They had used chemical pesticides; but could not save the vegetable from dying in the plants.
 This had provoked them to take initiatives in developing chemical-free manure and pesticides.
 Asadul had started taking training on making organic manure, vitamins and pesticides at upazila and district agriculture offices and various non-government organisations.
Now he is giving training to other farmers about how to make the manures and pesticides, many of which he has developed by himself.
Asadul said in making organic pesticide he put together crushed
Mehogoni fruits, Neem leaves and barks, Tobacco leaves, and other herbs and mix with water. This mixture is very helpful to protect crops from attack of ‘Mazra Insect’   (stem borer).
He said they are making organic pesticide also by using the mixture of tobacco leaves, cow urine, onion and water. This mixture is very helpful to protect brinjal, sesame and other plants and crops from pest attacks.
They are making organic vitamin by using cow urine, grass, marigold and barks of Hatisul and Agunjala trees. This mixture is very helpful in making stem of crops stronger and raising yield.
He said he is producing compost fertiliser in his home yard, which
is less expensive and more  productive.
Neighbor Islam said Asadul and his wife are now successful farmers and they have set an example in making organic pesticides, manure and  vitamins over the past four years.
Rezaul Karim, another farmer at Mallikpur village, said the husband
and wife are giving support to other farmers by way of selling various organic fertilisers, vitamins and pesticides at lower prices.
Asadul said his income from sale is now Tk 40,000 a month. He said use of organic manure, vitamins and pesticides help raise the land fertility and increase crop production.