Access to agricultural extension services of marginalized farmers
Study on Access to Agriculture Extension Services of Marginalized Farmers
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Oxfam is implementing "Strengthening NSAs to claim rights and services forextreme marginalized and socially excluded communities of Bangladesh" sinceSeptember 2010. The project is being implemented in 110 Unions 18 MunicipalityWards, and 25 City Corporation wards villages of seven districts [Dinajpur, Naogaon, Kurigram, Shariatpur, Chittagong, Noakhali and Laxmipurl with support of five partner NGOs forming 153 Union Development Committees [UDCI and 1225 Non State Actors [NSA] who are closely working with UDCs to influence local GoB agencies.The project is aimed to achieve "The rights, entitlements and services of the localagricultural services of the farmers and access to khash land and natural & commonresources". It has been revealed that in the project areas peasants, local producersand farmers [sharecroppers! do not have the access in to local agricultural services,natural resources, local market and decision making process. Local power holders,big farmers and market syndicates control all the available local resources, servicesand markets. Consultation and dialogues with the policy implementers at subnational level urged persisting problems need to be addressed where there isrequired to influence policy makers and reviewed existing policy and to adopt newpolicy in favour of small farmers and producer groups.
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