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Saint Martin Island in Bangladesh | Famous coral Island st martin

Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2012 by


http://ruralbd.comSt martin is only the coral island in Bangladesh, located 9km south of the tip of the cox's bazar. It is a small island of Bay of Bengal and forming the southernmost part of Bangladesh. St martin is famous for coconut tree and it's sweetly fruits, therefore local name of this island is Narical Jinjira (Coconut Island). Enormous shops of coconuts are found at the gateway of this Island. Only people can go there for six months in a year, other times ship does not enable to go there.


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http://ruralbd.comSt martin is about 8 km west of the northwest coast of Myanmar, at the mouth of the Naf River. During traveling from Teknuf to st martin is another wonderful pleasure, when ship fall on sea a mild fear come in mind but the joyous moment could not take this for much times. In this time you can see the border of Myanmar and so many pagodas situated at border side of Myanmar.



St martin is also famous for coral. At the sea beach enormous amount of dead coral are found. Corals are very sharp and like a blade, so becarefull when you enjoy walking on it. Sea beach of st martin is more times beautiful and charming than the beach of cox's bazar. Here water is more clean and bluish is perfectly are found. At moonlit night see comes more closure to beach and it looks great. A beautiful mind become create for outstanding natural weather of st martin.


If you watch cox's bazar, i think you should obviously tour at st martin it will give much more pleasure than cox's bazar. November to Decmeber is the perfect time to go st martin. Also you can go st martin till March and April in a year. Tourist of different classes from Bangladesh and foreign go to st martin in this time. A good place with sufficient hotels, cottage, foods, fishes, boats, burmese fashions or things. St martin is a place source of sea fishes, anyone can buy fry fishes at very low price. St martin is totally convenient for Bar-be-Que if you want to do that. Now a days peoples have made permanent livelihood in this place. They income from tourists through selling different things.

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Cox's Bazar the longest sea beach across the world located in Bangladesh

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Bangladesh is a country full of natural beauty, her charming scenery of different zones attract tourists to visit. Cox's Bazar is one of the most prominent tourism place in Bangladesh. Cox's Bazar is the largest natural sandy sea beach around the world. It is found as the biggest tourism place in Bangladesh. It's attractive scenery, doorway and beach location give much pleasure to tourists. 
  
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Cox's Bazar is a small town and district headquarters in Bangladesh, located 150 km south from Chittagong district. People can go here by bus in the road or by plane in the air. You can get much pleasure when you travel by bus to go there. Zigzag road of Chittagong-Cox's Bazar add extra feelings to your visiting.





The natural sandy beach cox's bazar almost full of visitors throughout the whole year. Nevertheless, special occasion may impart extra crowd here. Every year tourists from home and abroad come here to spend beautiful time with full of mind fresh. If anybody feels bore, please come to here, all of your monotonous will remove obviously and make yourself as energize, strong minded. 



Bangladeshi tourists come to cox's bazar, spend leisure time, marketing to burmese market. It is a good place to take bath and sun-bath. Here people love to watch the beauty of the incredible charming beach. At different times the see look different in nature. The peoples of low level of this town also come here for their living by arranging some extra facilities for the tourists. They manage drinks, photography, sitting place and many vehicle use in sea for giving more pleasure to the visitors.



If you are a Bangladeshi, not go to cox'x bazar you must have missed a wonderful beauty of Bangladesh. A small invite from me, please tour to cox's bazar with your family, you must gain better pleasant and joyful time.  Hotels, motels and cottage of different categories are available in Cox's Bazar which are cheap to high expensive. You can choose an affordable hotel after going into cox's bazar and enjoy your tour. Cox's Bazar is a famous sea port where wide range of fishes are caught everyday. You can also take tests of different fishes in Cox's Bazar

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Women workers in Garments Industries of Bangladesh | Women the low level workers of Garments Industry

Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2012 by

Garments are referred normally as the cloth ready to use. Where garments are produced from fabric being called Garments Industry. Now maximum textile industries of Bangladesh has established as composite where spinning, knitting/weaving, dyeing and garments making are done together. Garments are the finished products of these successive subject matters of textile. Textile industry are now emphasized over Garments sector very much. Quality garment products are their key success from the last successive years.

In Garments industry, the industrialists use most of the low to medium educated workers for their business. Workers at a low wages are available in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is an agricultural country where most of the people earn their livings from agriculture, but when industrialization was begun to expand the landless people has become interested to involve themselves into this sector. At present about 4.2 million people works in Garments factory, most of them are women. In the largest sector of Bangladesh women have come from rural areas to make themselves independent. Since they are also the contributor of the family financially, they are enabled to talk to any family decision. For this sector women have got an opportunity to work in better environment through living in urban areas. 



But these women workers are falling under numerous problems to work in garments factories. In major cases women are neglected and given  low wages than men workers. The factory owners are claimed that they are low educated and low efficient in working as a result women labors make few wages through working during the same hours. Also women workers have fallen too many other invisible problems which are retained hide for number of years. They are emerged as tinny members and very rough behave also done with them in many cases. The garments workers also lead much miserable life that is not expected to a person.



Nevertheless, thousands of women worker are added daily into these factories to earn their livings. Now a days workers are combined together and make workers association. Under this association they struggled for increasing their wages and make a rule of minimum wage given. Bangladeshi Government has accepted their request and noticed the Garments Factories to give them a minimum wages of 4500 taka. Since, the factory owners are enabled to take any challenge into the world competitive market for this low level workers, they should be benefited workers by giving them right wages in right time. To minimize industrial dispute and clash the factory owners should sincere to give their wages, some extra facilities, welfare and job satisfaction through motivation.

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RMG sector of Bangladesh | Contribution of RMG sector to the economy of Bangladesh

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RMG
Ready Made Garments is abbreviated to RMG is a major foreign currency earning sector of Bangladesh. Garments are basic need of human beings. People like to get more up to date garments in their daily needs. For luxurious life leading dress plays an important role, to make anybody looks great it needs to be wear a good dress. Garments are the finished product of Textile industries. After completing a series of steps like spinning, knitting/weaving, dyeing and garments making from textile fiber a finished garments become ready to use. Now RMG sector is top most in Bangladesh GDP. It has created employment and earn maximum foreign currency. Thousands of different sizes garments industry has been established in various areas in Bangladesh.
 

History of RGM in Bangladesh
After country partition from India most of the Textile Industry was grown in west Pakistan (now pakistan) to develop the economy of the west Pakistan. The industrialists were transferred products from east to west Pakistan also. When Bangladesh gained independence in 1971, Bangladesh government took decision to make textile sector nationalize and as a result of it Bangladesh Textile Mills Corporation(BTMC) was established. In 1978 Garments industry was established in Bangladesh with only nine enterprises. It was established under numerous obstacles like low productivity in the labor force, lack of planning, indiscipline, lack of accountability, and poor machine maintenance and operation resulted in a lack of profits. Day by day this sector started to overcome all the barriers and afterwards machinery is relatively inexpensive and easily available. In addition, garment producers can operate in smaller premises than those required by most of the processes in the textile industry. On top of this, Bangladesh has an abundant supply of cheap labor consisting mostly of women for whom this is one of the most suitable forms of employment. The rapid growth of this sector is primarily responsible for available labors of low wages. Now Bangladesh is the second Garments exporting country throughout the world. About 20 billion USD become earn Bangladesh from this sector. Now a days thousands of export oriented Garments factory has been established at Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayongonj, Norshingdi, Mymensing and Manikgonj in Bangladesh. About 75% of total revenue of Bangladesh now come from this sector. After making this sector as private, it becomes easy to gain this situation. Government of Bangladesh is now looking after this sector very much, from the sense of more production gov has made a distinct Textile University and four another Textile Engineering Colleges where students get chance to have a bachelor degree on Textile Engineering. Expectations that, RMG sector will help to develop Bangladeshi economy in the near future.



Major Apparels
Bangladesh has become famous for exporting knit wears. Knitting industry is now also a rapid growing industry in Bangladesh. Knitted goods are now most preferable to export to the textile industries. Among knitted fabrics the top ten categories we mention bellow-
  • T-shirts, singlets & other vests, knitted or crocheted, of cotton.
  • Jerseys, pullovers, cardigans, waist-coats & similar articles, knitted or crocheted, of textile materials, n.e.s.
  • Jerseys, pullovers, cardigans, waist-coats & similar articles, knitted or crocheted, of cotton.
  • Men's or boys' shirts, knitted or crocheted, of cotton.
  • T-shirts, singlets & other vests, knitted or crocheted, of textile material other than cotton.
  • Women's or girls' briefs & panties, knitted or crocheted, of cotton.
  • Women's or girls' blouses, shirts & shirt-blouses, knitted or crocheted, of cotton.
  • Women's or girls' trousers, bib & brace overalls, breeches & shorts, knitted or crocheted, of cotton.
  • Men's or boys' trousers, bib & brace overalls, breeches & shorts, knitted or crocheted, of cotton.

Except these Bangladesh also exports various garments made from woven fabrics. Some non-woven and braid fabric being exported to many countries.

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Five Major Rivers of Bangladesh

Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2012 by


Padma River
The river padma in bengali podda is a major river of Bangladesh. The water stream of Ganges is commonly known as padma in Bangladesh at the entrance point Monakosha and Durlavpur union at Shibganj thana, Nawabganj district. It encompasses the Nawbganj, Rajshahi, Pabna, Kushtia, Faridpr, Rajbari and Chadpur district of Bangladesh. It is 120 km long and 4 to 8 km wide across Bangladesh.The very important Goalandaghat-Chandpur steamer route is mostly on this river. The Padma enters Bangladesh from India near Chapai Nababganj. It meets the Jamuna near Aricha and retains its name, but finally meets with the Meghna near Chandpur and adopts the name 'Meghna' before flowing into the Bay of Bengal.

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Jamuna River
Jamuna second largest river in Bangladesh which is a big one across the world. It is one of the main river of Bangladesh whose distributery channel of the river Brahmaputra as it flows from China and India. It is mainly the downstream of Brahmaputra river flows south and joins the Padma river near Goalundo Ghat before meeting with the Meghna river near Chandpur district. Jamun originates from Earthquake and catastrophic flood in 1787. Jamuna's basin covering areas in Tibet, China, India and Bangladesh. Finally it flows into Bay of Bengal as Meghna river. In Bangladesh the river named as Jamuna as long as 205 km and it's width varies from 3 to 18 km.



Meghna River
Meghna is another major river system of Bangladesh. specially famous for its great estuary that discharges the flows of the Ganges-Padma, the Brahmaputra-Jamuna and the Meghna itself. The down stream of Surma river is often reffered to as Meghna and it is one of the three that forms the Ganges Delta. It is formed in Bangladesh by the joining of different rivers originating from the himaloyas of India. Actually the Padma river meets the meghna at estuary in Chandpur district, then it is flowed into Bay of Bengal as Meghan river. The Meghna river combines with the water of Padma and Jamuna ( formerly named as Brahmaputra in BD). After a long across about 264 km it enters the Bay of Bengal by for principal mouths - Tetulia, Shahbazpur, Hatia, and Bamni.

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Rice Crop in Bangladesh | Paddy the major Cereal in Bangladesh

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Rice
Rice is foremost cereal in Bangladesh. It is the seed of monocot plants Oryza Sativa widely produced in tropical and semi tropical region particularly in Asia. Bangladesh has lands of excellent sub tropical climate, abundant water from the river Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna which produce an excellent chance to grow rice. Bangladesh is an agricultural country, most of the peoples use agriculture for ther livelihood where rice is chief. Accordingly the world rice statistics of 2003-2004, Bangladesh was produced 26.4 million metric tones rice and Bangladesh took place the 4th rice producing country in the world.


Types of Rice Produced in Bangladesh
Bangladesh produces rice through a year as Aush, Amon and Boro. Amon is generally cultivated at December to January where Boro is March to May and Aush is July to August. In the year 1997-98, Bangladesh was produced 19 million metric tones rice which was just 15percent bellow than total need of the country. Among total land area, Amon is produced about 56.63%, Boro is produced about 28.17% and rest is produced as Aush. According to the statistics of the year 2009-10 Bangladesh produced 32356 thousands metric tones rice which was 91% of the total demand.



Cultivation
The cultivation of rice in Bangladesh varies according to seasonal changes in the water supply. The largest harvest is Amon, occurring in November and December and accounting for more than half of annual production. Some rice for the Amon harvest is sown in the spring through the broadcast method, matures during the summer rains, and is harvested in the fall.The higher yielding method involves starting the seeds in special beds and transplanting during the summer monsoon. The second harvest is Aush, involving traditional strains but more often including high-yielding, dwarf varieties. Rice for the Aush harvest is sown in March or April, benefits from April and May rains, matures during in the summer rain, and is harvested during the summer.




Harvesting
Rice harvesting is a festival in Bangladesh. When rices ripe properly or maturity is come than farmers become ready to harvest. Harvesting is done at different times accordingly different categories of rice and their cultivation. Harvesting may be done in hand method(directly by hand) or mechanical(by machine). In Bangladesh, farmers harvest with the help of sickles(kanchi) directly by hand. Harvesting is generally done by day labours through a low wages in Bangladesh.





Processing & Storage
After harvesting it needs to process to get rice from the plant. Processing is done either manually or help of machine. After collecting rice now it dries in sun light for storage properly, otherwise it may attack by bacteria or fungus.








 Different Foods
Rice is our major food which is use as different recipe. Using rice a wide range of delicious foods being produced in Bangladesh. Among them vat, muri, khai, biriani, polao, morog-polar, kacchi-biriani, payesh are produced widely. As a Bengali Nation we use different recipe of rice mostly as our daily foods. Rice is a nutritious and  a carbohydrate food.

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Silk Industry in Rajshahi division of Bangladesh

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Silk
Silk is a very fine proteneous filament fiber. This soft fiber is made from silk warm which scientific name bombyx mori lives through eating mulberry leaves. These warm makes cocoons during their life which made with gummy substance sericin and it is a protein. Silk fiber was first found in China and afterwards it spreads worldwide, even in Bangladesh. Production process of silk fiber is known as sericulture and it is divided into two parts 'mulberry cultivation' and 'silkwarm'. In silk industry it is mentioned as two types of silk, one is mulberry type and another is non mulberry type. Non mulberry type silk is again divided into three sub categories. They are Tassar, Eri and Muga. In our country mulberry type silk is produced mostly. Silk is a protein fiber composed of fibroin, sericin, fats & waxes and mineral salts as a little part.


History of Silk in Bangladesh
There is no any clear cut information about growing of silk industry in our country but Silk has a long glorious history in Bangladesh. After partition in 1947, majority of these industry listed into India except only 10 percent left in Bangladesh. In this time only two sericulture nurseries were established in Rajashi zones with only 2000 manpower. In the view of expanding these industries and make cash Bangladesh Sericulture Board (BSB) was established in Feb, 1978 in the silk city Rajshahi. Also a silk research institute was also established in this city. Now Rajshahi is renowned for making cloths from silk (from raw silk, hard silk, spun silk) fiber which is much demand full across the whole country as well as abroad.



Mulberry Cultivation
Mulberry is a highly economic multipurpose usable plant. It is common name of the group heterozygous and growing species of genus morus of the family moracea. In Bangladesh mulberry plant cultivates particularly in Rajshahi division. Silkwarm is grown under a life cycle Moth-Egg-caterpillr-pupa . Caterpillr eats mulberry leaves and make cocoons rounded their body with a gummy protein sericin. After collecting cocoons it needs to boil and some other successive steps, as a result silk fiber is collected as thousand meter long and very soft.




Products
A wide variety of products are made from silk fiber. Silk enable to contain about 11 percent moisture from atmosphere. It protects human body from outside environment, that is why is used to make warm apparels. From hard silk Georgette,  siphon and crape fabrics are produced. Decorative fabrics are produced from Tassar silk widely. pile fabric, dress material. linning, velvet and insulative materials are also produced from spun silk.

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Jute fiber grow in Bangladesh | Jute plant cultivation | Jute products in Bangladesh

Posted on Sunday, August 12, 2012 by

Jute Fiber

Jute is a long, shiny, cellulosic vegetable fiber. It is a multi-celluler natural fiber, produce soft and coarse yarn. Jute plant is obtained from the genus Corchorus, classified in the order Tiliaceae. Generally two types of Jute plant grow commercially, they are C. capsularis and C. olitorius. It is second naturally growing cheap fiber which is used in successfully for producing a wide variety of products. Jute fiber composed of cellulose, hemi-cellulose and lignin, where lignin is respnsible for the hardness of this fiber in some extent. For this reason jute spun fall under some problem, it breaks up and make wastage. Therefore jute is kept for conditioning about two days with a mixture of jute batching oil. Jute technology is now a top subject to study to make quality and variety products from jute.


Jute Plant in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is an agricultural based country located in South Asia. Agriculture is the prime occupation of the major peoples in Bangladesh. In 1947-48 Bangladesh grown about 80% of total jute in the world which produced lot of foreign money that was majority of the total revenue of the country. For this reason jute is called as "Golden Fiber" of Bangladesh. Farmers of Bangladesh got a heavy source to earn money and lead their potential life with happiness. In this session Bangladesh made some jute industry across the country where jute technology was used to make different categories products. But in the year 1975-76 Bangladesh grown only 25% jute fiber across the world, because in this time already many other countries began to grow jute plant commercially and successfully by applying new technology. After some years farmers of Bangladesh uninspired to grow jute plant for reducing the demand of Bangladeshi jute and jute products in foreign market, also they suffered from the whole seller to get genuine price of jute. Therefore jute technology began to destroy in the past successive years. Also some political reasons are responsible for this worst situation of this technology in Bangladesh. The other countries grow Jute plant are India, Nepal, China, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand etc.


Jute Cultivation

Since Bangladesh dominates a huge percent of jute cultivation so we shared the cultivation according to this country. January-February month is the best time to plow jute plant. At the first rainy day of this month you have to grow jute seeds. Jute seeds are so small so it is required, land should well cultivate and soil should soft in nature. When plants are 15 to 20 cm tall some are removed to give chance others grow properly. Fertilizer also be used in jute growing land, it increases 4 to 10 tones of producing jute fiber in each acre.  Urea, TSP and MP fertilizer you can use respectively 22.5kgs, 11kgs and 20 kgs for  each acre.


Insects and pesticides attack jute fibers and Defects of Jute Fiber

During growing period jute may attack by two dozens of different insects and pests which affect jute production and cause of jute fiber defects. Jute hairy caterpilla, Jute hairy caterpillar, Jute semilooper, Jute stem weevil, Field cricket, Yellow mite and Indigo caterpillar are the most common insects of jute plant, most of them attack on leaves and stem of jute plant.

Due to many reason jute fiber fall under defects finally when it would be processed. The common jute fiber defects are Rooty fibers, Speeky fibers, Croppy fibers, Sticky fibers, knotty fibers, Dead fibers, Hunka, Weak fibers, Mossy fibers, Heart damage and Exterior damage.


Products of Jute
Jute is an affordable fiber from which most attractive a great variety of products being produced. It puts of major use of household, domestic and decorative purposes like ropes, bags, blanket, towine yarn, wall mats etc. Now it is used to produce CBC yarn and Jutex yarn by blending with cotton fiber. Now a days green jute is used to produce paper in paper industry.

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