“…Due to these changes, some parts of the country remain waterlogged for a prolonged period. To overcome this problem, farmers in these areas are adopting alternative cultivation techniques (Sen and Zaid, 2010;Pavel et al, 2013;Hoque et al, 2016;Chowdhury and Moore, 2017;Islam et al, 2019;Kabir et al, 2019;Kabir et al, 2020). Floating gardening is one of the techniques where plants are grown on a bio-land or floating bed of water hyacinth, algae or plant residues (Winterborne, 2005;Saha, 2010;Alam and Chowdhury, 2018;Islam et al, 2019).…”