In Pirojpur’s Nazirpur and Nesarabad upazilas, vast areas of marshlands remain flooded most of the time each year, making it difficult for landowners to cultivate any crops due to the high water levels.
Around 3,000 residents of two villages under Pirojpur’s Indurkani upazila have long endured immense suffering due to the absence of a protective embankment.
The 5km rural road serves as an important route connecting Nesarabad and Nazirpur upazilas
Farmers in Pirojpur’s Nesarabad upazila are anxious about a possible low yield of guava this year due to unfavourable weather conditions
Palm trees grow naturally along roadsides and orchard edges
The construction work to upgrade the facilities of Kawkhali Upazila Health Complex in Pirojpur remains incomplete even after 17 years, depriving around one lakh residents of essential medical services.
Once, the canals flowing through Pirojpur town were the main route for transporting goods and people via paddle and engine-run boats.
Earning opportunities through water hyacinth have been created for hundreds of people in different areas of Pirojpur’s Nazirpur and neighbouring Gopalganj’s Kotalipara upazilas.
The lack of rain amid recurring heatwaves is hampering the wooden boat business in parts of Bangladesh as many inland waterbodies, such as canals and marshlands, have all but dried up.
Thousands of people on both sides of the Baleshwar river, which flows between Pirojpur and Bagerhat, have changed their fates by cultivating banana on a commercial basis.
On one fine winter evening, exactly a year ago, a launch named MV Abhijan-10 left Dhaka for Barguna around 6:00pm, with over 600 on board, although there was room for only 420.
Once farmers of Pirojpur used to cultivate more than 50 varieties of paddy during Aman season. But currently, only five to six varieties exist as the rest appear to have vanished, according to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE).
Once farmers of Pirojpur used to cultivate more than 50 varieties of paddy during Aman season. But currently, only five to six varieties exist as the rests appeared to have vanished, according to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE).
There once was a time when carpenters at an industrial estate of the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Pirojpur’s Nesarabad upazila would use handmade equipment to produce various types of furniture.
In the middle of the pandemic, a group of entrepreneurs from Pirojpur’s Nazirpur upazila were inspired to create an alternative source of income locally, and in that course, nurtured a fruit orchard at Sreerumkathi village.
Farmers who grow vegetable saplings on floating seedbeds are hopeful of making good profits this year following two years of strife amid the Covid-19 pandemic, when there was a serious dearth in wholesale buyers due to restrictions on public movement.
