GOLDA FARMING AT STAKE

         Hundreds of millions of foreign currency will be lost due to the infiltration of Indian so-called prawn fry:known as guest PL(post Larvae ). Everyday,a few million smuggled Indian PL are being sold to the golda farmers in Bagerhat,Shatkhira and Khulna region in the name of matural PL supposedly caught in the coastal rivers of Bangladesh.In reality, there is very little catch of golda fry from the rivers this year for number reasons.

          These smuggled PLs brought in the night from Shatkhira border, nursed for one day in the so-called 'Matir hatcheries',100s of which can be seen in the adjacent highway from Shatkhira town towards Kaligonj are later put  in the open pot and bucket and bucket and taken to the nearby markets to be sold to the farmers as river PL or natural PL.