Bangladesh

OISCA Training Centre, Bangladesh

The Centre was established in 1981 for male trainees by OISCA training graduates with the help of OISCA members. Since then, the OISCA Training Centre Bangladesh has achieved excellent results in human resource development. The four hectares of training farm includes rice fields, vegetable gardens, a small horticulture lot, and a fishpond. The trainees engage in cultivating six varieties of rice, various vegetables, fruits, flowers, and other crops. Organic farming is also learnt aside from chicken and fish breeding, mangrove planting and maintenance, aqua-culture, and the promotion of the Children's Forest Program (CFP).

Work is being done to improve organic farming methods through cooperation with the Effective Micro-organisms (EM) Research Organization. This collaboration has resulted in outstanding outcomes with the use of the EM in a "comparative manure effect experiment." Organic farming results in soil conservation and enrichment, as well as improvement in agricultural productivity. The EM Research Organization runs a campaign for extensive use of EM in Bangladesh. The OISCA Training Centre, Bangladesh uses EM in experimental cropping along with other NGOs working in the country.

Hideo Miyajima
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Location:	Vill: Narashinghpur, P.O: Zirabo, Upazilla: Savar, Dist:Dhaka
Establishment:	February 1981
Chief Organizer:	OISCA Headquarters
Counterpart Agency:	NGO Bureau of the Prime Minister's Office and Ministry of Agriculture, Bangladesh
Leader:	Hideo Miyajima
Staff:	9 persons (9 males)

OISCA Mangrove Reforestation Project

Planting mangroves, environmental conservation and education, saltpan development, salt production. Through the Chittagong Mangrove Planting Project, 520,000 mangrove trees were planted on 20 hectares during 2001. Since 1992, a total of 4,470,000 trees were planted on 425 hectares of shoreline in Chittagong

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Location	Vill: Illishia, P.O: Mukubulabad, PS: Chokoria, Dist: Cox's Bazar
Established in:	July 1992
Chief Organizer	OISCA Headquarters

Aqua-culture Forest Project

Fish are being raised in ponds with standing mangrove trees, which have restored the eco-system in the ponds. This Project started in 1996, and encouraging results were achieved through the mangrove planting. Previously, fish and shrimp culture in the vicinity had problems typically caused by repeatedly using the same ponds for the same purpose.

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Location:	Vill: Illishia, P.O: Mukubulabad, PS: Chokoria, Dist: Cox's Bazar
Establshed in:	July 1996
Chief Organizer:	OISCA Headquarters
Leader:	Hideo Miyajima, Hamidul Hoque
Staff:	10 persons (10 males)