Agricultural Development:

• The life style and status of poor, landless and marginal families within the working area of CHAHIDA heavily dependent on the agricultural livelihood. Because, they all belong to the fameds family. Their food, education, health and living status are subjected to the earning from the agriculture. So improvement of fife status of target families is mostly related to the development of the agriculture. Because the whole cultivation process is ancient and production rate is very low. The areas of agriculture like fisheries, poultry and livestock farming are also in a poor condition. As a result, the nutrition status and economic condition of this agriculture dependent population is getting worse day by day. For the upliftment of agricultural livelihood, it has categorized the agriculture sector into 04 productive activities. Such as: -Fisheries, Agro forestry, Horticulture and Livestock development.

The project also emphasized on quality of services and staff development to enhance the managerial and service delivery capacity has been considered carefully which will lead the program towards sustainable development. Out of project inputs, a process wilt be generated for mobilizing local resources in favor of the organized group members. Inputs of training, functional literacy and credit support will be used as capital investment for leading the groups towards sustainability: The

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This has enable women establish themselves as independent farmers through vegetables cultivation this result in economic and social upliftment of women as they earn extra income for their households. This also results in improve nutrition for char dwellers. The component focused on homestead vegetab{e gardening, CHAHIDA implemented the homestead gardening the project areas. The homestead gardening is an effective way of involving women in income generating ventures. Homestead gardening also provides nutritious food to the char dwellers, generates income and employment, and good for trading. Homestead gardening has manifold advantages for the char population. For this very poor in these areas, this is the only source of food and micronutrients for daily subsistence.