Abstract
Agriculture of Bangladesh is closely dependent on weather, rainfall pattern and land formation. However, frequent hydro-meteorological hazards cause to adversely affect the normal agricultural process and production. This study aimed to assess the impact of Hydro meteorological hazards on the crop cultivation practices, possible mitigation and adaptation measures for the farmers at Chalan Beel area under Pabna district, Bangladesh. There are 90 people having land and engaged with crop cultivation directly at Chalan Beel were been selected by applying purposive sampling method and interviewed by a pre-designed semi-structured questionnaire through face to face interview. The results revealed that Rice (93.75 %) and Garlic (47.5 %) are the major cultivating crops at Chalan Beel and 96 % of the farmers were been experienced with hydrometeorological devastation. The farmers perceived Nor’wester (77.9 %) as the most frequent hazard causing crop damage following by Heavy Rainfall (71.4 %), Hailstorm (68.8 %), Heavy Wind (45.5 %), Flashflood (42.9 %), Heavy Fog and Floods (19.5 % and 11.7 %) respectively. It is also identified that Nor’wester (58.4 %) and Heavy Rainfall (58.4 %) had maximum damage whereas Hailstorm (55.8 %), Heavy Wind and Flashflood also considerable adverse effects on overall crop production at this area. Only 24 % of farmers were found to change their cultivation pattern as the adaptation measure. This study portrayed that hydro-meteorological hazards are adversely affecting the crop production at Chalan Beel area and resulting economic loss. Therefore, government should ensure the participation of farmers along with adopting their deliberative in developing a strategic plan for providing technical support for diversification and training to adapt in this hazard prone area.
 SAARC J. Agri., 18(2): 181-193 (2020)
Highlights
Bangladesh is a South Asian developing country, which is considering as a middleincome country
Disasters and risk are essentially geographical in nature (Alam and Collins, 2010; Shahid and Behrawan, 2008)geographical location, terrain, dense river networks, and monsoon climate expose the country to a high level of physical disaster risk and socioeconomic conditions have created a high vulnerability of communities to natural disasters (Azad et al, 2013)
This study revealed that 96 % of the respondents of this area know these types of hydro meteorological hazards
Summary
Bangladesh is a South Asian developing country, which is considering as a middleincome country. Due to its geographical location (Parvin and Johnson, 2015), land characteristics, multiplicity of rivers and the monsoon climate Bangladesh suffers from frequent natural hazards in all over the country and faces food and livelihood challenges. The hydro meteorological hazards affect the livelihood including losses and damages of crops cultivation, scarcity of pure drinking water, loss of economy, an increase of poverty, damage in fisheries, livestock, and vegetable gardens and creates a state of unemployment among the people (Hossain and Majumder, 2018; Rahim et al, 2018). Dhar et al (2018) stated to document farmers’ livelihood aspects and agribusiness potentials in wetland areas of Bangladesh to understand the economic loss of agricultural production due to natural hazards which would help to promote agribusiness and minimize risk. Focused on community perception on natural hazards and its’ adverse impact on livelihood in the southern part of Bangladesh
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