Project
Community-based Bio-diversity Management Project
Project Goal:To increase awareness of the impactof climate change on the eco-system and introduce production techniques to farmers
Sector Focus:Environment and Climate Change
Status:Completed
Duration:2011-12
Donor:Probartana/UBINIG (BDT 130,000)
Number of beneficiaries:6,500 (direct 900,indirect 5,600)
Working area:Koyra (in Khulna district) and Monirampur (in Jessore district)
Activities:
- identifying appropriate cyclone-affected localities and participants for the project;
- providing training on how to adapt cultivation methods to climate change;
- organizing farmers who are primarily affected by cyclones and flooding;
- distributing hybrid seeds to participants, with accompanying information of how to use them to best effect.
- community group formation
- monthly meeting with group members
- support to agri. demonstration plot
- promote indigenous seed varieties of agri. products
- linking farmers with buyers
