{"id":857,"date":"2017-09-08T11:40:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T10:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/?p=857"},"modified":"2017-09-26T11:51:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T10:51:50","slug":"migration-adaptation-a-short-story-of-khulna-jessore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2017\/09\/08\/migration-adaptation-a-short-story-of-khulna-jessore\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration & Adaptation: A Short Story of Khulna & Jessore"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Md. Niaz Murshed<\/em><\/p>\n

Khulna is the third largest city in Bangladesh. \u00a0It is situated on the banks of the Bhairab and Rupsha rivers. It is also the centre point of the Khulna division. Khulna is also known for its port. This division consisted of ten districts and it is the gateway to the world’s largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.\u00a0 Mangla is home to an important port for Southwest Bangladesh. \u00a0It has fabulous natural beauty but the lifestyle is not so easy here: drought, cyclone and other weather events are a regular phenomenon. \u00a0With each day, the risks increase. The local people have to fight for water on a regular basis. Khulna is also in a dangerous point because of climate change. Experts think that the future will be worse than the present.<\/p>\n

\"image001\" Phultola is a village in Batiaghata Upazilla near Pashur river. Most of the population is educated. Some people are living in other cities because of their studies and employment, and some are living abroad. People are mainly involved with agriculture. They are producing seasonal fruits and crops including paddy, daal, several vegetables, etc. Most of the houses are made of wood and leaves. Some people are engaged with prawn cultivation. Drought and cyclone are the main natural disasters here. Because of the saltiness in the soil, agriculture is becoming increasingly difficult.<\/p>\n

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Saral Ward of Paikgacha Upazilla is situated in the middle of the Upazilla and most of the people are permanent residents. They are mainly engaged with business, though some people are involved with prawn cultivation.<\/p>\n

The devastating form of nature can be seen from Amurkata , a village of Soladana Union of Paikgacha. It is situated near the river, Shibsha. The village has poor communication systems. Van, motorcycle and various local vehicles are the main medium for transport.\u00a0 For 2 pots of water, village women have to go three or four kilometres away from the village.\u00a0 They don\u2019t have proper drinking water or water for daily use. Most of the people work outside of the village.\u00a0 Most of them go to Gopalganj or Khulna district for a job. During cultivation, men and women work together in the field.\u00a0 Amurkata has huge lakes for prawns.\u00a0 Those who have smaller fields cultivate prawns and crabs. Due to\u00a0saltiness in the water, they do not have any other option for cultivation. Houses are made of several leaves and soil. Because of the cyclones, there is a school which can also be used as a cyclone centre.<\/p>\n

\"image003\"Our second place was Jessore beside Kapataksha river which is linked to the poet Michael Madhushudan Dutta. \u00a0Jessore is one of the districts of Khulna and one of the oldest cities. It has eight Upazillas. During the British Raj period, Jessore was a \u201cmahakuma\u201d.
\nKotoali, Bagharpara , Keshobpur and Manirampur were our workplaces. Bahadurpur of Kotoali Upazila had less risks. Sekandardarpur of Bagharpara and Panjia of Keshobpur are less affected by natural disasters. Only Diganga of Manirampur has the risk of flood, but it is not because of nature, it is because of drainage problems.<\/p>\n

After observation on four Upazillas of Jessore we found that people are mainly involved with agriculture but they work in their own fields with different vegetables, paddy, mustard, daal and wheat. They produce fruit for a commercial purpose.<\/p>\n

To have a good lifestyle, people work in the capital city, their own divisional city or abroad. For higher education many people live in cities.<\/p>\n

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by Md. Niaz Murshed Khulna is the third largest city in Bangladesh. \u00a0It is situated on the banks of the Bhairab and Rupsha rivers. It is also the centre point of the Khulna division. Khulna is also known for its port. This division consisted of ten districts and it is the gateway to the world’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-gbm-bangladesh","category-student-reporting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jyTh-dP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":863,"url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2017\/10\/10\/migration-and-adaptation-a-case-study-from-the-khulna-jessore-region\/","url_meta":{"origin":857,"position":0},"title":"Migration and adaptation: a case study from the Khulna-Jessore region","author":"Carolin Bothe-Tews","date":"10th October 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Nazia Bushra, Research Assistant, Refugee and Migratory Movement Research Unit (RMMRU) Khulna stands on the banks of the Rupsha and the Bhairab rivers, located in southwest Bangladesh, and it is the geographical mid-point between the ports of Jessore and Mongla. 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