Satkhira Resource Centre

Affiliated with 
BARCIK
Bangladesh

It is a field learning centre for rural community, youth volunteer, student, researcher, journalist and development activists. This area is located in the coastal zone of South-Western part of Bangladesh and closes the Sundarban Mangrove forest the largest mangrove of the world. Mostly Bengali people are live there and also Munda and Bagdi Indigenous communities are there with their diversified culture. Not only the farmer and fishers also the forest dependent livelihood you can see in this area.

More than 300 local rice varieties are conserving through on-farm conservation methods, participatory varietal trial and also women are involving in participatory plant breeding program to develop resilient variety. More than 70 types of vegetables and more than 100 medicinal plants are conserving in this working area. Local breed of livestock are also conserving there.

Thirty (30) farmers, fishers, youths and women organization are involved in this area. A sub-district level change monitoring committee and coordination committee are coordination all the grassroots activities.

Village: Shyamnagar, PO: Shyamnagar, Upazilla: Shyamnagar, District: Satkhira, Bangladesh
Asia/Dhaka
Partha Sarothi Pal, Regional Coordinator, Satkhira
+88 01714481580
parthapalbd@gmail.com

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