Brief
Around 397 households in Bagatipara are using biogas from Biogas Plant to fulfill their demand. The main purpose of the IMPACT project under the Department of Youth and Sports Ministry, is for youth development and to create employment opportunities for unemployed youth and socio-economic development, this project has been started by properly managing cattle-chicken farm expansion, using farm waste as an alternative fuel for the production of electricity and gas.
The main goal of the IMPACT project is to ensure the use of local resources by featuring innovative management and technical support for rural unemployed youth and vulnerable women by providing skill development training of rural youth and other family members in establishing commercial poultry-cattle farm, to increase production of fruit-vegetables namely meat, eggs, milk, fruits, vegetables, etc. to fulfill the food needs of the country.
In Bangladesh, the first biogas plant was set up by Dr. M A Karim, a professor of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh, in the University campus in 1972. It was a floating dome type plant of 3m3 gas production capacity. Subsequently, seeing the success of the plant, 4-5 more plants were constructed in the surroundings. These plants did not last long due to leakage in the domes.
In 1974, the Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (Bard) constructed one biogas plant following the same design. The Institute of Fuel Research and Development (IFRD) constructed another plant in the campus of the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) in 1976, followed by a plant at the KBM College in Dinajpur in 1980.
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Back in 1997, a devastating accident occurred while the exploration in one of the wells in Magurchara gas field. An unimaginable catastrophe broke out in the 840 meter below of surface level in the said gas field on the 14th June 1997. The explosion cost too much for the environment, it denuded about 700-acre reserved forest, destroyed 10 tea gardens and hampered greatly the lives of numerous workers and tribal people living nearby. Though measures have been taken to improve the conditions, evident to this major accident are still seen in the location of the accident.
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{:}{:bn}সুরমা অববাহিকার ওপর অবস্থিত মৌলভীবাজার গ্যাসক্ষেত্রের আওতাধীন হাইড্রকার্বনের মজুদ সমৃদ্ধ একটি জনপদের নাম মাগুরছড়া। মাগুরছড়ার ক্ষতিগ্রস্ত গ্যাসক্ষেত্রটি লাউয়াছড়া জাতীয় উদ্যানের পরেই অবস্থিত। ১৯৯৭ সালের ১৪ই জুন মাগুরছড়া গ্যাসক্ষেত্রে একটি কূপ খননের সময় মারাত্মক দুর্ঘটনা ঘটে এবং এর ফলে মাটির ৮৪০ মিটার গভীরে ভয়াবহ বিপর্যয়ের সৃষ্টি হয়। মানুষের অসাবধানতা এবং অবহেলার কারনে ঘটে যাওয়া দুর্ঘটনার দরুন পরিবেশকে দিতে হয়েছিল চরম মূল্য। এই দুর্ঘটনার কারনে সৃষ্ট অগ্নিকাণ্ডের ফলে প্রায় ৭০০ একর বন, ১০ টি চা বাগান শুধু পুড়ে গেছে তাই নয় পাশাপাশি এসব বনজ সম্পদের উপর নির্ভরশীল অসংখ্য মানুষ, আদিবাসী সম্প্রদায় এবং বনে বসবাসকারি প্রাণীকুলের জীবনেও নেমে এসেছিল চরম বিপর্যয়। দুর্ঘটনার ফলে সৃষ্ট পরিস্থিতির উন্নতির জন্য পদক্ষেপ নেওয়া হলেও আজও এই স্থানটিতে সেই ভয়াবহ দুর্ঘটনার চিহ্ন লক্ষ্য করা যায়।{:}
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Sadullapur is very near from Dhaka and it’s a very ideal place for a day trip. A large quantity of Dhaka's flower supply comes from this area. Main flowering crop from here is the rose (though they also cultivate other flowers, but only few). Most of the spaces from this area are occupied with the rose gardens. And only few seasonal vegetable cultivation were found.
To go to the Rose Flower Cultivation Plant of Sadullapur, you have to reach at the Diabari Ghat to catch the engine boat for the Sadullapur. It is a public transport and per person it takes only 20 Taka. During the dry season the boat uses to run through the serpentine river. But when the river is flooded, the boat can easily draw a straight line between the source and the destination to skip unnecessary wandering. For this reason it takes only 30 minutes to reach at Sadullapur by boat during this season, but it takes more than an hour during the dry season.
After reaching at Sadullapur, you can start wandering through the roads, sideways, and sometimes through the bank of the wetlands. Or may be look for the birds along with the rose gardens. Most of the places are occupied by the rose plants. Few of the gardens are having roses bloomed overwhelmingly, and few are about to bloom. But the farmers are always careful about the gardens regardless the flowers.
The soil from this area is somewhat red in color and few of the lands are higher than our average land height. From my understanding, it’s probably hard for irrigation and that's why they have chosen to cultivate flowers in this land. Along with the flowers, they have also planted the palm trees in between the lands. The village was having several wet lands (most of those were generated from the overflowing of the river Turag). We have had a walking around the bank of those wetlands.
You may have seen thousands of roses from the market, but never seen millions of roses in a garden. It can be a nice experience for you. If you want to swim inside the river water before returning from there, it would also be a great experience. The river water is good, and you can easily have a good swim experience over there.
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[post_content] => Renwick Jaggeswar Factory Ltd. is a company mainly responsible for supplying sugarcane crusher, all parts of mills and roller re-shelling, pump and agricultural tools, machine-spare parts of paper, consuming oil and jute industries, various hardware products etc. It's a public Ltd. Company controlled in care of Bangladesh Sugar and food industries corporation.
Major part of its products goes to 15 sugar mills of Bangladesh. All sugar mills is dependent on the raw material of this company.
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Chhatak Cement Factory, established in 1941, is one of the oldest industrial units in Bangladesh. Chhatak Cement Factory Ltd. manufactures cement. The company was formerly known as Assam Bengal Cement Company Limited. Chhatak Cement Factory Ltd. was founded in 1937 and is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The company operates as a subsidiary of Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation.
In order to raise production capacity from 1,35,000 tons to 2,33,000 tons, the 2nd phase of the expansion programme has been completed with financing from Asian Development Bank. The Factory uses limestone imported from Meghalaya, India and from its own quarry-Takerghat Limestone Mining Project.
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