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Nayakrishi Andolon: New agricultural movement in Bangladesh
Farmers of Bangladesh are organized against <<beesh>>. The word literally denotes poison in Bangal and that is how pesticides and harmful chemicals are normally termed by the farmers of Bangladesh. Obviously, a correct and absolutely perfect term the genuine wisdom can produce. The women farmers started to organize themselves to save their <<deha>> from poison, that is the Body, with a capital B. There is no margin between the female body in the shape of a woman and the spatial extension of the universe, the <<Pakriti>> -- the Body of all bodies. Thus the Nayakrishi AndoIon (New Agricultural Movement) started as a women's movement in order to defend the Body and to celebrate the joyful originary posture of Prakity in her profound act of creation. It has soon extended to a unique practice of agriculture through mixed cropping, crop rotation and other subtle arts producing <<Ananda>>. The <<Ananda>> is of course food and other agricultural products depending on what you mean by...