Project to adapt to climate change
Bangladesh part of the tri-nation project to enable farmers to adapt to climate change has been launched at a community centre in Rajshahi city yesterday.
While inaugurating the project, Rajshahi Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton said if the project is properly implemented, it will help farmers to face environmental changes.
European Union is funding around 30 lakh euro for the whole project styled “Strengthening Adaptive Farming in Bangladesh, India and Nepal (SAFBIN)” while the allocation for Bangladesh is 7 lakh euro.
Caritas, an international NGO, will implement the project at Poba upazila of Rajshahi, Boraigram of Natore, and Patnitala of Naogaon in six years.
The project officials said some 2,700 people from 1,400 families of some 30 villages of the three upazilas have already been selected to be beneficiaries of the project.
The project includes building resilience to face climate change through helping farmers in rain-fed areas adopting small scale farming, building network among the farmers and helping them to market their produces.
It also includes agriculture research and applying the results of the research in farming.
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