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Salina teaches many Narsingdi women to dream
NARSINGDI, Sept 2, 2020 (BSS) – Salina Jahan, a woman farmer-cum-entrepreneur of Narsingdi district, has brought happiness to many Narsingdi women’s life by giving them opportunity to work in her organic agriculture and earn a handsome income.
Salina set an example establishing a healthy and organic agriculture through using organic fertilizers in Shoikarchar village of Shibpur upazila in the district.
She brought out women of home to land. She inspired many women towards agriculture and involved them with diverse agriculture, making them self reliant. She also inspired the rural women producing vermin-compost for organic farming.
Talking to BSS, Salina said she and her organization Grameen Krishak Daridra Bimochan Atmakallyan Sangstha started organic agriculture in 2007 with the assistance of the then Deputy Commissioner Amrita Baroi.
She brought out the unemployed rural women of home to lands and engaged them in producing Vermin compost for organic vegetables.
Salina said at present she cultivated organic vegetables and paddy on 25 bighas of land, getting excellent income from agriculture.
She also started poultry farming and Turkey bird farming at Joynagor union of the same upazila in Narsingdi district in 2015.
Currently, there are over 10 thousands chickens and 700 Turkey bird in two farms.
She said women participation in agriculture and poultry sector has been contributing to poverty alleviation, meeting nutritional demand of people and also helping women to be financially well-off.
Salina Jahan, the pioneer of women empowerment, received Bangabandhu Jatiya Krishi Purasker from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2007.
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