RANGPUR, Sept 20: The cottage industries based on bamboo, cane and other fibrous plants are on the verge of extinction in Rangpur district with the flourishing of plastic goods in the market.
As a result, a large number of people of the district were compelled to give up their ancestral profession.
Once upon a time Badarganj, Pirgacha, Mithapukur, Kounia, Taraganj upazilas of the district were famous for different products made of bamboo, cane and other fibrous plants. Products include Kula, Chailum, Dhama, Jhapi, Dolna, Mora are now on the verge of extinction and have been replaced by plastic goods. Now plastic goods have flooded the markets everywhere.
People, especially rural people, who are engaged in such traditional profession do not get fair prices of their products. Production costs have also increased several times. So they are leaving their ancestral profession.
About 85 per cent of the people who were engaged in cottage industries have left their profession, sources said.
Many aged people who had been in their profession for a long time said that they were passing their days in abject poverty.
The conscious people of the society opined that adequate measures should be taken to save this age old trade from extinction.
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Cottage industries on the wane in Rangpur
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