Title: Climate Change and Sustainability of Agriculture in Bangladesh
Abstract: Bangladesh is forced to import food from the international market or resort to foreign aid. Droughts or cyclones both disrupt agricultural output rapidly and thus leave a lot of families helpless. They also affect domestic food prices which makes it difficult for the majority of the middle-income families within the urban areas. In Bangladesh, food security has been one of the major national priorities for last few decades, but the target has always been interrupted by the climate change and for resource constraints. Present section of this chapter will highlight the major effects of climate change in the food production and the national resources constraints to address the food security. However, major constraints in terms of food security in Bangladesh attributed to cultivable land scarcity, irrigation water scarcity in summer, lack of technological knowledge, lack of climate adaptive crop variety, lack of institutions and professionals as well as social and cultural constraints. Richer farmers can afford modern machineries, genetically modified crop seeds and chemical fertilizers. This results in efficient farming, higher yield from a unit plot of land or better utilization of larger farmlands. This not only produces good quality and large quantity of output, but also means that the produces can be sold at cheaper rates at the local market, or can be processed and exported for higher rates. Farmers who cannot afford such technology are at a disadvantage.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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