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Earning money is key to women’s empowerment – Article by Hilde Jansen

BlueGold article 17 May final

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Pig rearing Effect of Sugar Beet Silage on Milk production Effect of sugar beet for duck fattening

Training of Trainer for Farmer Trainer

Blue Gold has started the development of Farmer Trainers in 10 new polders, who will be able to take over the role of CDFs in organizing Farmer Field Schools. Recently Blue Gold has selected 76 Farmer Trainers (FTs) from Khulna and Patuakhali from different polders, among them 41 men and …

Input Retailer Training: Capacity Building of Important Market Actors

Blue Gold Program as part of its Strengthening Value Chains (SVC) activities arranged three day long capacity building training programs in two batches for selected Input Retailers located in program implementation areas. The main objective of the residential training was to strengthen their capacity as value chain actor in providing …

Satkhira, Khulna and Patuakhali Workshops with DoF and DLS officials

Day long workshops for the Department of Fisheries and Livestock officials of Satkhira, Khulna and Patuakhali were organized by Blue Gold TA respectively on 25, 26 and 28 July 2016. The main objective of theses workshop was to strengthen linkage with line department for future planning and implementation of Blue …

Training for Farmer Field School Organizer (FOs) on Fruit Tree Management

A collaborative action research between Blue Gold Program and Bangladesh Agriculture University (BAU) Germ Plasm Center, Mymensingh, was running in BG polders areas from 2015 to promote crop diversification and to increase year round availability of fruits and vegetables promoting food security. To strengthen the action research activities at polder …

Field Days on Homestead Vegetables, Poultry and Nutrition

Blue Gold Programme finished its 6th cycle Farmer Field Schools (FFS) on Homestead vegetables, Poultry and Nutrition module at Khulna, Sathkira and Patuakhali districts. After the production cycle a total of 88 farmer field days were organized at Polder 29, 26, 31-part , 2, 43/2B and 43/1A . A total …

Resource Farmers Capacity Building Training

A day-long training for Resource Farmers (RF) entitled Resource Farmers Capacity Building was held for two batches of participants in the training room of the Blue Gold Patuakhali Office on 15 February and 17 February 2016. A total of 49 first and second year RFs from different Market Oriented Farmers …

Blue Gold Program Orientation for Bakulbaria and Kalagachia Union Parishad

Bakulbaria and Kalagachia Union Parishads (UP) are within the newly selected polder-55/2C under Galachipa Upazila of Patuakhali district. These UPs needed orientation on the Blue Gold Program as the UP representatives were not well aware about the program. Orientation for the UP functionaries for Bakulbaria and Kalagachia UPs were held …

Mung bean FFS-MFS result sharing workshop

To share the experience and result of mung bean Farmer Field School (FFS) and Market Oriented Farmer Field School (MFS), Blue Gold organized two workshops in Patuakhali & Khulna respectively on 17 and 19 August. The workshops were attended by the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) staff working at different …