3.e) Other activities
Apart from this basic "Comilla Approach" to rural
development, the Academy has developed, in the course of time,
some important concepts which, after having undergone trials
in the Academy's experimental area, have been taken over by
the Government and implemented in the whole country or East
Pakistan respectively. The Rural Works Programme designed
to provide work and income to landless people or small peasants
by improving the infrastructure is one example. In recent
years, the Thana Irrigation Programme, which supplies Irrigation
facilities to peasants, gained more and more importance. Its
special feature is the winter irrigation, i.e., irrigation
during the period in which there are no floods. The Academy
also conducts research an the suitability of different varieties
of rice and other crops under local conditions, an fertilizer
use, etc. Special programmes an birth control, a youth programme,
a Women's programme and a programme to involve the Imams in
developmental activities have been set up. In order to improve
the marketing and processing conditions, a rice mill and a
creamery have been built.
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