Animal farming helps char people
Expanding animal husbandry has brought fortunes to hundreds of extremely poor people living in disaster-prone char areas in ten northwestern riverine districts in recent years.
According to official and NGO sources, some 1,00,000 poor families living in char areas including Kurigram, Bogra, Gaibandha and Rangpur have achieved the success to overcome poverty.
Many of them have achieved self-reliance through rearing cows, goats, buffalos, sheep and other income generating activities while they struggled for survivals during seasonal lean periods.
Chilmari upazila Chairman in Kurigram Shawkat Ali Sarker, Bir Bikram, said the have-nots group char people achieved success through exploring the prospect of animal husbandry with the assistances of the Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP).
According to CLP officials, plinths of 90,600 households were raised under CLP phase-I during 2004-2010 and 25,934 households so far under phase-II (2010-2016) aiming at raising 85,000 households on plinths by 2016.
Through implementation of the CLP, the poor char people have been improving livelihoods through animal husbandry and other income generation activities, said Taramon Bibi, Bir Pratik.
Project Coordinator of Climate Change Project of RDRS Bangladesh Marufuzzman said these char people have achieved success in animal husbandry after escaping floods following raising plinths in recent years with CLP assistances.
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