drinking water from dug-wells in some of the drought-prone high Barind tract
where the existing shallow and deep tube-wells are yet to reach due to
various reasons.
household purposes but also cultivating various less-irrigation consuming
cereal crops and vegetables after the best uses of the surface water.
Around 750 hectares of land have been brought under vegetable farming
through operating 413 dug-wells which were installed on behalf of a four-year
project titled “Extension Excavation of Dug-well in the Barind Area for
Cultivation of Crops by Soft Irrigation”.
Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) has implemented the
project in nine upazilas of Naogaon and Chapainawabganj districts for