Coping with flashflood under changing climate in North-Eastern Haor areas of Bangladesh: potentials of promising crop production practices

Haors are large bowl shaped floodplain depressions and one of the most important agro-ecological zones in Bangladesh. However, rice production in this area has been severely impacted by recent events of frequent early flashfloods. Many experts have linked the changes of flooding time and duration in haor area to global climate change. Farmers need short duration, relatively tall, lodging tolerance and non-shattering rice varieties to cope with the flashflood. With this contrast, this study is conducted in Tahirpur and Biswambarpur upazila of Sunamganj district to examine occurrence time and duration of flashflood; identify flashflood coping crop production practices; and finally investigate relationship between socio-economic characteristics of farmers and their flashflood coping crop production practices. Hence, this study utilizes a set of approaches viz. structured questionnaire survey, key informants interview with stakeholders and focus group discussions to get primary data and secondary data also collects to conceptualize the problems...