Dug-well benefits 20,000 drought-hit households in Rajshahi | Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)
drinking water from dug-wells in some of the drought-prone high Barind tract where the existing shallow and deep tube-wells are yet to reach due to various reasons. household purposes but also cultivating various less-irrigation consuming cereal crops and vegetables after the best uses of the surface water. Around 750 hectares of land have been brought under vegetable farming through operating 413 dug-wells which were installed on behalf of a four-year project titled “Extension Excavation of Dug-well in the Barind Area for Cultivation of Crops by Soft Irrigation”. Barind Multipurpose Deve...
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