The researchers, led by BRRI Director General Dr Md Shahjahan Kabir, also recommended continued government incentives to farmers in terms of farm mechanization and seeds and fertilizers.
To give the flood-affected farmers some support, they called for the government to ensure proper irrigation services from all state-run irrigation projects, a farmers-friendly paddy procurement policy and halting rice import in domestic paddy harvesting seasons.
The five-strong BRRI core research team members are its Director Dr Md Abu Bakr Siddique, head of its Agricultural Statistics Division, Dr Md Ismail Hossain, and three senior scientific officers – Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar and Dr Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman from Agricultural Economics Division and Md Abdul Aziz from Agricultural Statistics Division.
Every year, on average, a fifth of cropland is affected by floods in Bangladesh. As a result, some crops are lost due to deluge, but in return, farmers also gain from increased productivity from the fertile alluvial soil derived from sediments.
But in years when repeated floods and flash floods submerge lands beyond 22% threshold level, Bangladesh substantially losses its annual rice output.
The researchers’ team, whose primary goal was to assess flood-induced crop losses in just-harvested Aman paddy, stumbled upon the worrisome findings that since 2015, floods in Bangladesh have been submerging more lands, thereby posing a threat to future food security.
With an annual output of 36 million tons, Bangladesh is world’s third-biggest producer of rice, after China and India.
Thanks to the population rise and rice-centric dietary habits, Bangladesh requires to grow an additional half a million tons on top of previous year’s output just to maintain the same level of self-sufficiency. But natural disasters like floods, cyclones and droughts often compel the country to rely on imports to bridge the demand-supply gap.
Bangladesh’s food department floated five international tenders in the last one month seeking to import 250,000 tons of rice to replenish public granaries. The government is anticipating that the import volume may hit half a million tons this fiscal year.
Source - https://www.dhakatribune.com
Bangladesh - Higher-magnitude flood frequency increases
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The researchers, led by BRRI Director General Dr Md Shahjahan Kabir, also recommended continued government incentives to farmers in terms of farm mechanization and seeds and fertilizers.
To give the flood-affected farmers some support, they called for the government to ensure proper irrigation services from all state-run irrigation projects, a farmers-friendly paddy procurement policy and halting rice import in domestic paddy harvesting seasons.
The five-strong BRRI core research team members are its Director Dr Md Abu Bakr Siddique, head of its Agricultural Statistics Division, Dr Md Ismail Hossain, and three senior scientific officers – Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar and Dr Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman from Agricultural Economics Division and Md Abdul Aziz from Agricultural Statistics Division.
Every year, on average, a fifth of cropland is affected by floods in Bangladesh. As a result, some crops are lost due to deluge, but in return, farmers also gain from increased productivity from the fertile alluvial soil derived from sediments.
But in years when repeated floods and flash floods submerge lands beyond 22% threshold level, Bangladesh substantially losses its annual rice output.
The researchers’ team, whose primary goal was to assess flood-induced crop losses in just-harvested Aman paddy, stumbled upon the worrisome findings that since 2015, floods in Bangladesh have been submerging more lands, thereby posing a threat to future food security.
With an annual output of 36 million tons, Bangladesh is world’s third-biggest producer of rice, after China and India.
Thanks to the population rise and rice-centric dietary habits, Bangladesh requires to grow an additional half a million tons on top of previous year’s output just to maintain the same level of self-sufficiency. But natural disasters like floods, cyclones and droughts often compel the country to rely on imports to bridge the demand-supply gap.
Bangladesh’s food department floated five international tenders in the last one month seeking to import 250,000 tons of rice to replenish public granaries. The government is anticipating that the import volume may hit half a million tons this fiscal year.
Source - https://www.dhakatribune.com
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