CropsWith Australian Aid support, Amal Foundation has launched a Local Adaptation and Women's Climate Empowerment Programme in Koyra, Khulna, built around demonstration plots of crops suited to salinity, training for women farmers and a community seed bank.
FisheriesWith the three-month ban over, fishing and crab collecting are allowed again in the Sundarbans, but bad weather, neap tides, the cost of taking a boat in and fear of extortion by forest pirates are keeping many Koyra fishers at home.
Koyra upazila health complex in Khulna has been upgraded to 50 beds on paper but is treating patients in a 19-bed building, six years after the old 31-bed block was demolished without a replacement being finished.
CropsFarmers on 16,000 hectares of aman in Koyra, Khulna, cannot get enough urea; the upazila agriculture officer says the allocation is below need and has asked for an extra sub-allocation.
Residents of Koyra, Khulna, say blocks for the Water Development Board's Polder 14/1 embankment are made with saline river sand instead of the specified silica sand; the contractor's site engineer admits it was used.
