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Nayakrishi

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Bengali Women in a Nayakrishi area

(New Agriculture Movement) A modern agricultural movement within Bangladesh that rejects the use of Western pesticides and genetically altered seeds. The movement was started in response to environmental hazards that were assumed to have been started by the use of insecticides and nematicides in the growing of crops.