Small farmers prosper with homestead gardening
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
A Correspondent
NARSINGDI, Nov 29: Thousands of poor, small and marginal farmers in all the six upazilas of Narsingdi district have been making good income and alleviating poverty by producing vegetables and fruits in their homestead gardens.
Gardening around homesteads in the villages is becoming popular with production of different common fruits and vegetables for own consumption and also for sale.
Farmers of the district are usually farming fruit bearing trees like govia, lemon, papaya, pineapple, litchi, amropali mango, latkon and vegetables like bean, brinjal kakrol jhingha puishak, lal shak, data shak, gourd, in their homesteads garden.
Successful yield of fruits and vegetables in the homesteads gardening brings substantial amount of Money to the poor families and thus brings their economic solvency and eradicate their poverty.
Experts, local people and upazila officials in the district said that those who were extremely poor five to six years ago are now leading a somewhat solvent life because of the homesteads gardening.
They said more then 25,000 hectares of homesteads lands are bring cultivated in the six upazilas of the district and at least 10,000 tons of vegetables and 1,50,000 tons of fruits are being produced yearly in the district.
The correspondent recently visited different areas of the district and saw farmers working in their homestead gardens.
Crime rate falls
in Narsingdi
The crime rate has been significantly reduced in Narsingdi district during the last 22 months of the present government. Sources said 180 to 200 cases were usually filed every month in the six upazilas of the district two years ago but the came down in the district during the last 22 months following Continued anti crime drives by the law enforcing agencies.
According to police super's office a total of 2281 cases were filed in 2007 and 2244 cases in 2008 while 1648 cases were filed in 2009 and 1554 cases in the last ten months.
A total of 8685 persons were arrested in 2008 against 13612 warrantees, and 10807 in 2009 against 14800, warrantees showing the Percentage of arrest increased in 2009.
Police during the same period recovered 4 foreign revolvers, 1 locally made revolver, 4 foreign-made pistol, 2 shuter gun, 53 rounds of bullets, 5 kartuj, 287 different kinds of local arms, 1 toy rifle and 1600 fire-works. Police also recovered 435 kg ganja, 3638 bottles of phensidyl, 186 gram heroin, 2709 litres of country liqueur 258 canes of beer and 2 bottles of foreign wine during the period.
NARSINGDI, Nov 29: Thousands of poor, small and marginal farmers in all the six upazilas of Narsingdi district have been making good income and alleviating poverty by producing vegetables and fruits in their homestead gardens.
Gardening around homesteads in the villages is becoming popular with production of different common fruits and vegetables for own consumption and also for sale.
Farmers of the district are usually farming fruit bearing trees like govia, lemon, papaya, pineapple, litchi, amropali mango, latkon and vegetables like bean, brinjal kakrol jhingha puishak, lal shak, data shak, gourd, in their homesteads garden.
Successful yield of fruits and vegetables in the homesteads gardening brings substantial amount of Money to the poor families and thus brings their economic solvency and eradicate their poverty.
Experts, local people and upazila officials in the district said that those who were extremely poor five to six years ago are now leading a somewhat solvent life because of the homesteads gardening.
They said more then 25,000 hectares of homesteads lands are bring cultivated in the six upazilas of the district and at least 10,000 tons of vegetables and 1,50,000 tons of fruits are being produced yearly in the district.
The correspondent recently visited different areas of the district and saw farmers working in their homestead gardens.
Crime rate falls
in Narsingdi
The crime rate has been significantly reduced in Narsingdi district during the last 22 months of the present government. Sources said 180 to 200 cases were usually filed every month in the six upazilas of the district two years ago but the came down in the district during the last 22 months following Continued anti crime drives by the law enforcing agencies.
According to police super's office a total of 2281 cases were filed in 2007 and 2244 cases in 2008 while 1648 cases were filed in 2009 and 1554 cases in the last ten months.
A total of 8685 persons were arrested in 2008 against 13612 warrantees, and 10807 in 2009 against 14800, warrantees showing the Percentage of arrest increased in 2009.
Police during the same period recovered 4 foreign revolvers, 1 locally made revolver, 4 foreign-made pistol, 2 shuter gun, 53 rounds of bullets, 5 kartuj, 287 different kinds of local arms, 1 toy rifle and 1600 fire-works. Police also recovered 435 kg ganja, 3638 bottles of phensidyl, 186 gram heroin, 2709 litres of country liqueur 258 canes of beer and 2 bottles of foreign wine during the period.