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Huge fall in fish production

40,000 fishermen unemployed

From Our Correspondent
RAJBARI. Jan 8 : More than 40,000 fishermen of the district are facing unemployment because of abnormal fall in quantity fish.
Fish production this year suffered a serious set back In the district due to massive sll-tallon of rivers, canals, haors and beds, indiscriminate catching of fish fry by non-pro-fesstonals and alarming out break of diseases.
Wllh the advent of winter, most of the rivers, canals, beds and haors have been dried up. These water bodies earlier were silted up by the sand fall during the floods.
Unabated catching of fish fry by large number of non-ftshermen has also hampered the natural growth of fish.
It Is alleged that a group of people living along the river side cutch fish fry rampantly defying the government ban during breeding time.
Fish disease that broke out epidemically all over the country perished about 50 per eent of total fish In rivers.
beels, boors and ponds.
The Increased use of insecticides In crop fields perished a huge quantity fish due to the contamination of the waler.
On Ihe olherhand, fish is not cultivated proportionately tn the waler bodies. The fishermen could not increase fish production due to their fund constraints. They neither gel bank loans nor the money lenders agree lo lend money as they are already bankrupt, fishermen informed.
Meanwhile, a large number of fishermen had left their ancestral profession and had taken other occupations for their livelihood.
The Fa rid pur Sugar Mills authority have taken up a pro-granunt' lo change the socio-cconondc condition of the sugarcane growers by adopting intensive cultivation of Improved variety of sugarcane.
A total of 300 acres of land al mlllgutc end Magura Zone ha* been brought under the cultivation.
A plot measuring between 20 and 40 acres Is being used for the cultivation of improved quality of sugarcane. Tilts is now treated as single plot which helps the use maximum utilisation of land.
Md Farid Ahmed, Cane Development Officer who is organising the programme told The Daily Star that the farmers at the sugarcane blocks were supplied mechanised cultivation facilities, improved variety of plants, fertilizers and other necessary Inputs for successful implementation of the programme.
Moreover, Inter-cropping of potato, onion and mustard have also been Introduced in the sugarcane blocks.
Under the Improved method, about 900 to 1000 niaunds of sugarcane Is likely to be produced per acre where as the earlier sugarcane production was 400 maunds.
Field Officers and Field Staff of Ihc department are supervising the cultivation for achieving the goal.