Barisal Correspondent :
World Soil Day 2014 observed in Barisal on Friday calling to adapt soil usage policy for saving the soil to maintain biodiversity.
A gathering of farmers was organised on this occasion at Durgapur under Chandpur union of Barisal Sadar upazila.
Seven development organisations named as Association for sanitation and economic development (ASED), Prantojon Trust, Democratic Development Centre (DDC), Kamfist, Development Organization of coastal area’s people (DOCAP), SHIELD, RUPSA organised the programme.
It was presided over by Shawkat Ali Khan Badal and addressed among others by Liakat Hossain Khan, Mizanur Rahman, Shakhawat Hossain, and S M Shahjada.
The speakers and participants said soil is the basis for food, feed, and fuel and fibre production and for services to ecosystems and human well-being. It is the reservoir for at least a quarter of global biodiversity, and therefore requires the same attention as above- ground biodiversity.
Soils play a key role in the supply of clean water and resilience to floods and droughts. The largest store of terrestrial carbon is in the soil so that its preservation may contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation. The maintenance or enhancement of global soil resources is essential if humanity’s need for food, water, and energy security is to be met, they added.
Soils have been neglected for too long. We fail to connect soil with our food, water, climate, biodiversity and life. We must invert this tendency and take up some preserving and restoring actions, the participants noticed.
Therefore World Soil day celebrates to connect people with soils and raise awareness on their critical importance in our lives. Because the importance of soil as a critical component of the natural system and as a vital contributor to the human commonwealth through its contribution to food, water and energy security and as a mitigator of biodiversity loss and climate change, they told.
The participants also compiling their seven point suggestions called to adapt policy for soil management and using soil in best way and utility, execution of sustainable planning for using soil to boost agricultural production and ensuring food security and maintain environment and biodiversity.
World Soil Day 2014 observed in Barisal on Friday calling to adapt soil usage policy for saving the soil to maintain biodiversity.
A gathering of farmers was organised on this occasion at Durgapur under Chandpur union of Barisal Sadar upazila.
Seven development organisations named as Association for sanitation and economic development (ASED), Prantojon Trust, Democratic Development Centre (DDC), Kamfist, Development Organization of coastal area’s people (DOCAP), SHIELD, RUPSA organised the programme.
It was presided over by Shawkat Ali Khan Badal and addressed among others by Liakat Hossain Khan, Mizanur Rahman, Shakhawat Hossain, and S M Shahjada.
The speakers and participants said soil is the basis for food, feed, and fuel and fibre production and for services to ecosystems and human well-being. It is the reservoir for at least a quarter of global biodiversity, and therefore requires the same attention as above- ground biodiversity.
Soils play a key role in the supply of clean water and resilience to floods and droughts. The largest store of terrestrial carbon is in the soil so that its preservation may contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation. The maintenance or enhancement of global soil resources is essential if humanity’s need for food, water, and energy security is to be met, they added.
Soils have been neglected for too long. We fail to connect soil with our food, water, climate, biodiversity and life. We must invert this tendency and take up some preserving and restoring actions, the participants noticed.
Therefore World Soil day celebrates to connect people with soils and raise awareness on their critical importance in our lives. Because the importance of soil as a critical component of the natural system and as a vital contributor to the human commonwealth through its contribution to food, water and energy security and as a mitigator of biodiversity loss and climate change, they told.
The participants also compiling their seven point suggestions called to adapt policy for soil management and using soil in best way and utility, execution of sustainable planning for using soil to boost agricultural production and ensuring food security and maintain environment and biodiversity.
