The Institute for Motivating Self-Employment (IMSE), a farmers’ organization in West Bengal, is carrying out two major campaigns in support of farmers to enable them to keep the land they till and to use sustainable agriculture practices to make small-scale farming viable while protecting the environment. Village-level awareness camps were conducted to demonstrate the benefits […]
Use of pesticides in Bangladesh increased by six times from 1954 until 2010. A vegetable farmer uses pesticides around 150 times in one session. There are 377 pesticides that are still used in the country despite being banned in developed countries. Umar Faruhk of Char fasson Upazila in Bhola district is a village doctor by […]
When MTCP2 was launched in Bangladesh, one of the focus group discussions took place in the district of Bhola, which looks out onto the Bay of Bengal. This is an area where farmers are regularly hit by foods and often sustain very expensive losses of seeds. Local farmers took the opportunity to tell their troubles […]