Water Hyacinth Control Program through Community Development Approach : A Case Study in a Bangladesh Village

Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly
ISSN 00213551
NII recode ID (NCID) AA0068709X
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A Village Committee was established for the organization of the rural development activities in a village, Dakshin Chamuria, in Bangladesh under the JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Project of JSRDE (Joint Study on Rural Development Experiment). The committee consists of so-called traditional village leaders ‘matabbors’, who are mostly active in enhancing the villagers’ unity and devoted to the village public affairs. The authors outline the Community Development Approach to establish the Village Committee and its performance to control an aquatic weed (water hyacinth) in order to protect deep water rice in study village. The paper describes the procedure adopted to establish the Village Committee representing all the villagers, as a key part in the Community Development Approach of JSRDE. Secondly, the water hyacinth control program as a study case under the Community Development Approach was also evaluated. Overall, the results of this study indicate that the Community Development Approach may contribute significantly to the solution of the rural development problems in Bangladesh.

Date of issued
Creator Haruo UCHIDA Kazuo ANDO
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NII resource type vocabulary Journal Article
Volume 32
Issue 3
spage 181
epage 186
Language eng

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