This work was carried out in collaboration among both the authors. In particular, author SDB managed the literature searches, collected necessary data, performed the statistical analysis, managed data analysis and interpretation and wrote the first draft of the manuscript; while author MAI designed and supervised the study, wrote the protocol and play major role in data interpretations and discussions.Both authors read and approved the final manuscript.
In Haor areas of Bangladesh agricultural activities are limited to four - five months of a year due to water logged condition and boro rice is the prominent crop grown within this short time span in dry season. But farmers often had to face almost total crop failure due to recurrent flash flood events. This paper attempts to evaluate Haor farmers’ adaptation through adopting strategies in securing boro rice from flash flood damage at pre-mature and mature stages. To reach this objective, a pre-tested structured questionnaire was used to collect data from randomly selected 115 Haor farmers from February to May, 2020 while Focus Group Discussion (FGDs) and Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) were also done as necessary during the research work. Results revealed that cultivation of short duration boro rice variety ranked top followed by practicing varietal diversification and early harvesting of rice (at 80% maturity) as the most significant adaptive strategies in securing boro rice. Obtained results also highlighted the possibilities of attaining desirable resilience through change in the adaptation behavior of Haor farmers’ if the identified farming practices are widely promoted and adopted. Hence, any development plans for Haor area should integrate local knowledge with modern strategies thus resulting a location specific sustainable flash flood adaptation policy.
This paper investigates haor farmers' knowledge gap on different yield contributing aspects in boro rice production and to explore whether any relationship exists between the selected characteristics of the haor farmers with their knowledge gap. Necessary data were collected during 12 June to 28 August, 2016 using a structured interview schedule from 100 haor farmers covering six villages of Tahirpur Upazila under Sunamganj district. The results revealed that the knowledge gap of the haor farmers varied from 38% to 94% with a mean value of 58 and standard deviation was 11.5 while half (50%) of the respondents had at least 57% of medium to high level of knowledge gap which in turn hampered the adoption of modern boro rice cultivation practices and thereby lowering about 58% of the boro rice yield. The highest knowledge gap was reported in case of fertilizer and pest management, followed by knowledge gap in harvest and post-harvest management, climatic suitability in the haor areas for boro rice production, seedling raising, time of transplanting and spacing while the lowest knowledge gap to be counted for variety and its attributes. The socio-
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