Plantation and Sustainable Agriculture

The existence of Sundarbans is under tremendous threat due to massive deforestation on a regular basis by human being for their livelihood. The deforested land is completely barren and not suitable for traditional cultivation. Frequent Cyclones are often impacting forest, wild life and human inhabitant. The land for agriculture is mostly single-crop and dependent on rain water at monsoon time only, which is one of the reasons of people’s poor financial condition in the Deltas. Due to deforestation, Soil erosion, Cyclone, High tide, life of human and animals are facing huge challenge at the moment.

MUKTI has started working on this problem and has targeted to find a solution by utilizing the barren land created by deforestation. Large scale coconut and other local varieties of plants are being planted to increase forest, mitigate fuel needs of local people and increase income of inhabitant so that human dependencies on forest can be reduced. Many places of Sundarbans also do not have any electricity; we promote alternate energy like solar power. MUKTI engages school children and local people to increase awareness on global warming, and danger of deforestation. We engage Women mostly for plantation activities.

MUKTI Self Help Group women are engaged in plantation like coconut and mangrove, which is generating income for local people. Impact of this project is multifold like women empowerment, reforestation in deforested land of Sundarbans, as Coconut is called the tree of life and being economic crop. As a result of this, the income of local people is increasing, proper utilization of barren land are being utilized to improve the environment and livelihood. Most of the plantation is happening at river side which is protecting soil from erosion. This civil forest is protecting cyclone and is being used for disaster recovery.