Enhancing Agricultural Resilience in Sathkhira District: Challenges and Solutions

1. Agriculture SituationUpdate Assessment and Analysis

3. Current Problems/Vulnerabilities • Waterlogging • Siltation • Erosion • Lack of Irrigation Water • Lack of Fresh Water Reserver • Lack of Polder Management • Climate Change • Lack of Fresh Water Flow • Lack of Appropriate Technology

4. Waterlogging Risks • Reduce scope of crop cultivation • Mortality of fruits and plantation crops • Affects soil health Siltation Risks • Affect drainage system • Create water logging • Increase flood threat • Hamper water flow of canal and river • Lack of Appropriate technology Risks • Hamper food security

5. Erosion Risks • Affect Fertility • Decrease cultivable land area • Migration of agricultural labor Lack of Irrigation Water Risks • Hamper irrigation • Reduce crop production and yield • Decrease cultivable land area

6. Lack of Fresh Water Risks • Hamper irrigation • Reduce crop production and yield Lack of Polder Management Risks • Erosion of soil • Hamper plantation crop • Outside siltation increase • Hamper drainage system

7. Lack of fresh water Flow Risks • Salinity increased • Washing of Land hamperred-Crop production and yield decreased • Unavailability of irrigation water • Decrease cultivable land area

8. Climate Change Risks • Cyclone Increase (SIDR, AILA) • Embankment erosion • Waterlogging • Siltation • Changing cropping pattern • Reduce cropping intensity • Crop biodiversity affected

9. SalinityRisks • Hamper crop production and yield • Soil degradation • Crops extinction • Affect homestead garden and Fodder cultivation Lack of Appropriate technology Risks Hamper food security

10. Technological and other options • Development of saline tolerant varieties • Development of sustainable crop production technology • Multipurpose polder management • Development of rain water harvester • Establishment of rain water reservoir • Excavation and re-excavation of canal and rivers • Creating awareness on climate change

11. Technological and other options • Training for farmers on crop production under stress condition • Capacity building of the extension agents and officers • Coordination among GOB/Donors and NGOs • Development of Early warning system on climatic hazards • Seed storage facilities on cyclone and flood prone areas • Community based extension approach (FFS) • Conservation biodiversity • Adaptive research • Extension-education-research

12. Crop Type and Area Under Inundation Sadar & Tala 83,452 farmers lost 10,860 hectares of aus and T aman rice crops, vegetables and tubers. 2012 yield reduction expected 20-30% (DLS) Assessment and Analysis

13. Cropping Calendar A typical Rice cropping System calendar for Satkhira A typical crop calendar for Satkhira The majority of farmers growing aus rice lost their crops to the flood as it was ready for harvest. T aman rice was their post-flood crop. Assessment and Analysis

14. Economic Analysis Nearly 80 percent of Satkhira District was classified as “double cropping of rice” employing a large number of landless labourers. Assessment and Analysis

15. Livestock Losses due to Water Logging • 142,800 chickens • 4,381 ducks • 62,800 cows • 58,500 goats • 1,280 sheep • 180 buffalo Source: Department of Livestock Services (DLS) • Infrastructural losses were estimated around Tk. 217 lakh Sadar & Tala 18,840 livestock rearers who lost or were forced to sell their animals, or were affected by a relocation and loss of production, from 32,200 cattle, 33,600 goats, 840 sheep, and 66,000 chickens and ducks Assessment and Analysis

16. Fisheries Damages due to Water Logging • Around 27,967 fishers and fishermen affected • Sadar & Tala: 20,182 fish farmers who suffered damage to fish ponds and lost 9,086 metric tonnes of fish-stock, 1,564 metric tonnes of shrimps and 19.5 million fingerlings. Source: Department of Livestock Services (DLS) • Estimated financial loss due to inundation Tk. 30147.17 lakh Assessment and Analysis

17. Joint FAO & GoB Interventions (2011) Assessment and Analysis

18. FAO Interventions (2011) Assessment and Analysis

19. Status of Cultivation and production of Aus in 2010-11 and Aman in 2011-12 AUS Assessment and Analysis N.B Cultivation target was- HYV=15200 ha , Local= 32 ha, Total= 15232 ha Production target was-HYV=36480 mt , Local=- 38mt, Total= 36518 mt in clean Rice

20. Status of Cultivation and production of Aus in 2010-11 and Aman in 2011-12 AMAN Assessment and Analysis N.B Cultivation target was- HYV=96775ha , Local= 2211 ha, Total= 98986 ha Production target was-HYV=263209 mt , Local=- 3530mt, Total= 26739 mt in clean Rice

21. Upcoming GOB Support for Rice Farmers in Sathkhira District Source: Control Room, DAE, Khamarbari, Dhaka. Each farmer will get 5 kg Aus (HYV) seed, 20 kg Urea, 10kg TSP and 10 kg MOP = total 45 kg production inputs Assessment and Analysis

22. Upcoming FAO Interventions OVERALL GOAL: Reduce vulnerability (by improving food production and income generation) and develop coping mechanisms to protect livelihoods against future flooding and water-logging. OUTCOME: The adoption of agricultural diversification, technologies and practices by 1000 farmers from Satkhila District that are unable to grow rice crops because of persistent water-logging of their paddy fields Assessment and Analysis

23. Upcoming FAO Interventions Assessment and Analysis

24. We Shall Overcome