3 days Rural Livelihood Fair and farmers reception was held at Chakaria, Demanding enhancing capacity and skill of rural communities to adopt climate change related risk and hazards!

3 days Rural Livelihood Fair and farmers reception was held at Chakaria

Demanding enhancing capacity and skill of rural communities to adopt climate change related risk and hazards!

Coastal community peoples and agriculture production are the main victims for climate change related risks and hazards target. But there is no space for coastal community peoples in Government and non Government plans and programme to reduce their sufferings. Coastal people are deprived by any development plan. As a results many indigenous communities going to missing from our society. Specially the fishing communities are most vulnerable to survive and now they are losing their occupation and livelihood. It also proved that if the community people’s capacity and skilled to response any disaster they must be are contribute a lots which was proved in Rana plaza tragedy at Savar. Local volunteers perform excellent job to rescue and operation then law enforcing agencies. So if the local community peoples capacity and skill are enhanced on climate change issues they must be played a vital role in climate change adaptation issues at coastal areas of Bangladesh. These were stayed at the closing session and farmers reception ceromony of the 3 days Rural Livelihood Fair at Chakaria Bijoy Mancha on last 28 April 2013. The theme of the fair is; Prepared now for climate change adaptation! Comprehensive agrarian reform for food security, employment generation and economic growth! ISDE Bangladesh with Chakaria Upazila Administration, Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihood (CSRL) is jointly organized the 3 days Rural Livelihood Fair 1420.

Upazila Nirbahi Officer Chakaria Joynal Abdin is addressing at closing session

 

Crest & certificate distribution to the best stalls

Convener of the fair management committee and Assistant Commissioner land Md Al-Amin was presided over the closing session while Upazila Nirbahi Officer Joynal Abdin was chief guest. Amongst other Principal Chakaria University Collage Prof AKM Giash Uddin, presidium member of Bangladesh workers part Haji Bashirul Alam, President Chakaria Business Association Alhaj Monjur Hossain Chy, Chairperson Upazila Women Enterpreouner Council Umme Kuslhum minu, and Executive Director ISDE Bangladesh S M Nazer Hossain also take part the discussion.  

  

a women competing at sports events

Speakers urges the organizers to spread out the fair to the more remote areas of the country and raise voices to make social and political movement to stand against culprits who destroy the nature and create hazards. Speakers also said Matamuhuri river is opportunity for Chakaria now it become problem due to river is occupied by some land grafters. Besides tobacco cultivation, hill cutting, destroy forest resources are causes for environmental critical condition in Chakaria. So there is need for social movement by the local community to protect nature and environment and safe our nation.       

Assistant Commissioner land Md Al Amin is addressing 

Later farmers reception and award distributed to the 5 categories. These are Haji Mojaher Ahmed successful dairy and poultry farmer, Nor Mohammed Fisheries, Rezaul Karim strawberry, Mohammed Haroon Dairy and rose garden, Dr. Anowerul Hoque mixed fruits gardener and dairy farmer.

Haji Bashirul Alam freedom fighter is addressing

    

best farmer receiving crest from UNO Chakaria

Prof AKM Giash Uddin Principal Chakaria University College is addressing

Rural livelihood fair-1420 was included sports competition for rural women and lots of women including housewife, working women, farmers take part the different events of the competition and some of them come from different parts of the Upazila.  










Besides traditional folk song, puthi pat, local song, kabi gan also perform by the local performers. Rural livelihood fair-1420 make an warm up the local traditional culture, norms and practices in Chakaria and peoples from all ages shown interest to see the performance and various stalls for agricultural technologies and productions which is 1^st time in Chakaria.