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Jute production declines
CHAPAINAWABGANJ Aug 31: Jute cultivation In the dis trict ha* been decreasing for want of patrontaatlon and financial support. reports UNB
Production target could not be achieved during the last seven years, and the jute growers have not been getting fair price of their products.
Government and non-gov emment jute purchasing cen tres tn the area have already been closed and Jute growers are sifting to paddy cultivation.
It is learnt that only 500 to 700 acres of land were eultl vated jute in the district this
Local leaders have urged the authorities to take neces sary steps to help the .cult Iva Uon of jute for the interest of the farmers as well as the tn lerest of the country.
Massive vaccination plan implemented
The Livestock Department has vaccinated 56.31.000 cat tiehead and 5 crore 65 thousand ducks and bens in 16 northern districts of the
country during the fiscal year 1991 92.
Official sources said, the department exchanged 90 000 improved specie* of ducks and Bena with the people and Inseminated 3 32 lakh cow.
They afoo provided training on cattle raising and poultry farming to 37.000 people during the period
The Ltve.toi k Department l* now capable of producing 25 crore dose* of vaccination for cattle and poultry, produce 40 lakh poultry bird* and Inwng nato 10 lakh row. in a year a source sold
The deportment has undertaken a programme to plant 2000 saphngs at Its offices in 16 district, of the northern area during the current year
The dl.trlcts arc ChapainawabganJ. Rajshahi. Naogoan Natore. Pabna. Slrajganj. Bogra Jeypurhat Rangpur. Lalmonlrhat. Nttoh amari Ku rigrum. Gaibandha Dtnajpur. Thakurgaon and
Child laboures on increaae
The number of child labourer. ia inereoalng
throughout the northern districts of the country
The district are. Chapai-nwabganj Rajshahi. Natore. Naogoan. Pabna. Slrajganj. Ik.gr-. and Joy purhet.
According to a report, at least five lakh child labourers below the age of 12 are en gaged In different odd Job. for earning livelihood tnatead of going to primary school.
It ta learnt that natural calamities have turned the marginal poor Into landless cultivator, and de.tltutea who have been compelled to move to town areaa tn search of food aial shelter
These poor children moatly work In hotels and restaurants, tea-stalls, motor garages, welding workahopa and brick field* They alao work as domestic Mrvants, rickshaw -pullers and hawker, on high ways trains and ferry ghats
After their day's works they sleep on Uaitpoth* railway sta tiona. bus terminala. ghats terminals and abandoned places, half fed or unfed.
The child labourer, have to work for more than 12 hours every day at very nominal