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September
22, 2000
Moulvibazar,
Sept 21 (UNB) – Once earthen household appliances were much popular,
but these days those have been sidelined by modern items, wreaking
havoc with the livelihoods of potters.
Apart
from competition from steel, plastic and ceramic-made appliances, the
potters have another worry: lack of raw materials.
There
was a time when the potters used to collect quality clay free of cost,
but nowadays they even do not find it to buy.
When
prices of other raw materials like kilt, dice, dye and fuel have gone
up unusually, the potters hardly can avail of bank loan, forcing many
of them to give up their ancestral profession.
More
worrying is that many potters in Rajnagar, Kulaura, Kamalganj, and
Sadar upazilas lost their homesteads in natural calamities like river
erosion, flood and cyclone on various occasions.
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