Farmers’ Group based at Shibalaya in Manikganj district has achieved “Bangabandhu National Agriculture Award-2017”.
Managing Director of the Organization Md. Amjad Hossain received ‘Bangabandhu National Agriculture Award-2017’ Certificate from Prime Minister yesterday.
This achievement is their result of long industry and dedication to the agriculture and soil of this country.
Their achievement has also glorified the industry and contribution of our farmers. We hope that “Bangabandhu National Agriculture Award-2017” will perform as a milestone and will inspire them for their working with people.
CCDB Shibalaya Farmers’ Group Enterprise, Shibalaya, Manikganj is basically a farmers’ organization. It has been started on 2002. There’re almost 1,200 farmers included in this farmers’ family. Among them almost 990 are female. Depending on the theme “Seed is the right to the farmers” – the farmers used to produce, collect, preserve and sell their own seed. So that the farmers used to have good qualities of seed within their reach and get relief from the seed fraudulence. At the same time they become free from the monopoly business aggression of the seed companies.
CCDB (Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh) and Agriculture Extension Department of the Bangladesh Ministry of Agriculture provided organizational, legislative and technical assistance to construct this organization. Other than them those who are providing assistance to this organization in various ways, are Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute, Bangladesh Institute for Nuclear Agriculture Research, International Rice Research Institute, International Wheat and Corn Research Institute, Seed Wing, Seed Certified Agency and Department of Agriculture Extension under Bangladesh Ministry of Agriculture.
This Farmers Group used to produce, collect, preserves and sell their seed within the “Chasir Hashi” brand. The quality seed produced yet by this organization are: rice, wheat, potato and corn. The organization is now working with the farmers of Manikganj, Dinajpur, Mymensingh, Barguna, Morolganj, Shyamnagar, Bagerhat, Pabna, Rajshahi, Jessore, Naugaon, Chapai and Bogura for marketing the various quality seeds produced by them under the “Chasir Hashi” brand.
For last sixteen years this farmers’ organization side by side the production of seed is working with CCDB and Agriculture Extension Department to combat climate change to extend various technical and species at the field level. Among those-dry seed bed preparation technology demonstration to combat climate change, rice cultivation with little water technology demonstration, stress resilient deep water local rice varieties Hijoldigha, Molladigha preservation. They’re also demonstrating and marketing Zinc enriched rice and rice seed cultivation technology, saline and draught tolerant various types of quality rice seed. In the mean time different activities of this farmers’ organization has been published in the print and electronic media several times. They’ve also achieved the “Best Farmers Organisation” in the 40 years celebration of CCDB.
The said farmers’ organization is working though in the small scale for quality seed production, collection, preservation, marketing and food security and climate change combat with the assistance of different government department and CCDB.
