CARB

About CARB

CARB- Centre for Action Research-Barind a non-government organization came into being in the year 1998. Now its Head Office is at Holding No-35, Terokadia,Cantonment Road,Rajshahi Cantonment Raipara, Rajshahi. For much of the past 45 years, agriculture in Bangladesh has been dominated by efforts to increase production of food grain to ensure food security. As a result of public and private investments in irrigation, dissemination of improved technology, and a favorable policy environment, food grain production reached and, infect, exceeded targeted availability during the time, which is a major milestone for Bangladesh.

CARB Mission

CARB works with people who face a lot of hardships in running their day to day life. Among these people there are landless farmers, farmers with a very scanty amount of lands, agricultural labour’s and people living under poverty line. Very often their lives are dominated by extreme poverty. During the cultivation season they are incapable of buying seeds, fertilizers irrigation water, pesticides etc. As a result they are bound to take loan from moneylenders at a very high rate of interest. After harvest they awfully realize that more than 50% of their crops have been exhausted to repay the loan and its interest. So their
permanent companion is poverty and stringency. There is no way out this curse. CARB has come forward to tear this net of curse. CARB sincerely wish to elevate the socio-economic condition of the farmers. CARB is always in search of friends and organizations that are eager to expand their helping hands for the eradication of poverty and elevation of socio-economic status of the poor farmers of Barind tract.

CARB Vision

It wishes the minimization of poverty stringency among the poor, landless cultivators and marginal peasants. CARB dreams of a society which is free from hunger, poverty and the oppression of the local
moneylenders. Its aim is to save the farmers from any sort of interest imposed by well to do moneylenders who encircle the poor by the curse of high rate of interest. The main features of CARB’s activities are the elevation of socio economic condition of the poor farmers, minimization of environmental degradation by massive afforestation, removal of all sorts of exploitation based on age, sex, religion and ethnicity. It also wants the empowerment of female and sex-equality. To achieve its goal CARB invites co-operation from like-minded organization.