Protecting farmers’ rights to boost production underscored

Legitimate rights of the prominent farmers and others concerned should be protected rightly for the sake of encouraging them towards boosting agricultural productions to meet up its gradually rising demands.

Referring to their enormous contribution to the country’s agricultural development, they unanimously said the farmers deserve the rights of getting all requisite privileges.

There is no alternative to protect their interests as a whole to ensure food security of the country’s people.

They came up with the observation while addressing a coordination meeting of people’s organizations management committee on Sunday.

Bangladesh Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge (BARCIK), a rights- based development organization, hosted the programme at its office with the main theme of peoples’ leadership development process in the Barind area.

Researcher Mahbub Siddiqui, farmers Nur Muhammad, Rahima Khatun and Munira Begum and college teacher Asim Kumar Sarker addressed the meeting as resource persons.

During his keynote presentation, Shahidul Islam, Regional Coordinator of BARCIK, put forward a set of recommendations on how to protect the farmers rights.