Technology has changed lives of people even in the rural area. People in the past used earthenware for their daily lives from cooking to storing goods. As the technology progressed, so did the equipments around people. Since the usages of glassware, porcelain and ceramic based kitchenware increased rapidly, the question of survival of pottery and earthenware emerges.
People of rural area now-a-days heavily relies on pots and plates made by plastic, ceramic of aluminum. Thus potters in many places struggle due to the lack of demands of earthenware.
Besides, proper ingredients to make pots along with the increasing price of fuels made pottery a dying sector already. Potters are desperately trying to cope up with these situations which have already decreased their number to fractions. Very few of them still keep this tradition alive now.
More than 500 families of ChatmoharUpazila in past were involved with pottery. Back at the time, pottery thrived in this region. Now, less than ninety families in the area, barely keep the business alive.
Ashok Kumar Pala from Haripur Bazar area said, “Five of my brothers are in the pottery business. They along with the women in their house make earthenware for various purposes.