Hundreds of thousands of farmers have now become self-sufficient by cultivating four levels of safe vegetables on the fallow land in the fish fence dams of nine upazilas including Morelganj of Bagerhat, the world’s largest mangrove forest Sundarbans. 100 truckloads of vegetables produced by them are now being sold in the important markets of various divisional cities of the country including the capital Dhaka.

Morelganj Upazila Agriculture Officer Agriculturist Md. Saiful Islam said that about 5500 hectares of land have been cultivated in 16 unions of this upazila. We are training farmers through regular monitoring system and Small Holder Competitiveness Project (SACP) to make them economically self-reliant.