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Post-flood relief, agro-rehabilitation continue in Brahmanbaria

Thursday, 4 October 2007


Our Correspondent
BRAHMANBARIA, Oct 02: Different government, Non-government and donor organizations with the help of the armed forces have further intensified post flood relief, agro-rehabilitation and medicare services in the district, sources said.
At the same time, the government has allocated adequate money for every flood hit Upazila to help the small and marginal farmers in making the upcoming Rabi crops farming successful and to recoup the losses they incurred by the recent floods, sources added.
The organizations have stepped up their efforts for distributing relief goods and Medicare services and oral saline as well as quacking agro-rehabilitation to mitigate the sufferings of the affected people, sources also said.
Besides, voluntary organizations, affluent people, the business community, financial and educational institutions, professional groups side by side with the NGO including ASA, BRAC, Change, NIR have intensified their relief and rehabilitation operation.
The over all diarrhoea situation remains under control as hundreds of medical teams, NGOs and other organizations have also geared up their efforts of providing the victims with medical services and life-saving medicines as water-borne diseases were spreading recently in the flood hit areas.
Distribution of T-Aman seedlings and crop and vegetables seeds by the Armed forces, department of Agriculture Extension(DAE) and a number of NGOs are working for the affected marginal farmers.
The government departments intensified distributing T-Aman seedlings and other seeds among the flood affected farmers in eight Upazilas of the district.
T-Aman seedlings, prepared in unaffected areas of the district, are now being distributed among the affected farmers by different organizations and NGOs.