Sherpur Representative:
A protest was held in Sherpur demanding agriculture, landless farmers and land reforms.
On Monday (October 28) at noon in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office, the benchmarking was held.
Around hundred landless farmers of 5 upazilas of the district were present in the human chain organized by the Bangladesh Landless Movement.
Speakers in the human bond said that Bangladesh is a riverine and agricultural country. Due to the advancement of various sectors including modern industry, services, manpower export, the role of agriculture has decreased somewhat, but the contribution of agriculture as the most primary and basic sector is still the highest. For the farmer, agriculture is still not only a profitable business but also a way of life. And the farmer is not only the owner of the land, but all types of workers living in the village or adjoining the landless, informal sector are also culturally farmers.
Apart from our various crops, fish, meat, dairy, tea, leather, jute products and other agricultural inputs, agriculture is by far the single largest primary source of national income and employment here. But the health of the land, food cycle, river-beel-baur, natural fisheries, underground and surface water, biodiversity, forests are all on the verge of destruction under the hands of mafia syndicates.
The economic and physical condition of the farmers involved in agriculture is dire, the worst of which is the condition of the landless male and female farmers. In order to do minimum justice to the demand for freedom of discrimination brought forward by the popular uprising of Bangladesh, the first priority should be to determine what steps can be taken for these landless men and women in the current reality, but in reality, agriculture, farmers and landless people are not in any kind of discussion. No, but the first condition to build and sustain Bangladesh as an independent, sovereign, dignified state is to ensure food security. Protecting own natural resources. Keeping this reality in mind, I am making a strong demand for the formation of ‘Agrarian Reforms Commission’ along with other areas of state reform.
After the valorisation, Bangladesh Land Movement Sherpur district branch convenor Shaheen Alam and the present leaders presented the memorandum to District Administrator Tarafdar Mahmudur Rahman.
