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Local Level Agricultural Planning Using Gis

MD. BILAL HOSSAIN
School of Agriculture and Rural Development, Bangladesh Open University, Gazipur, Bangladesh

ANWAR SADAT
School of Science and Technology, Bangladesh Open University, Gazipur, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

Geographical Information System (GIS) is a computer based technology that describes, stores manipulates and analyze information spatially and produces outputs in map and tabular form for decision making in the planning aspects of agricultural development. Land, soil, and land used pattern are the most vital factors for growing more crop yield from a part of land. In case of Bangladesh soil quality and land type varies widely within a small area of land. This study will focus mainly on to categorize the soil texture and land type that exist in Jibannagar thana of Chuadanga district using GIS. Moreover, the suitable cropping pattern for that area were also identified using GIS technology. In order to accumulate all the qualitative and the quantitative data, the "Thana Nirdeshika" booklet for the Jibannagar thana prepared by the Soil Resources Development Institute (SRDI), Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), Bangladesh, was used. The digital data source that has been created by the GIS project of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC) has also been used for the study. From this study it is found that four map units remain predominantly High Land (PHL), one HL and two predominantly Medium High Land (PMHL) which indicate to use winter crop, HYV rice, Broadcast Aus and Aman rice based cropping pattern.

Keywords: Land type, Soil texture, Cropping pattern, GIS.

Location: Jibannagar thana, Chuadanga district

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Program Area: Knowledge Management

Non-commodity: GIS

Objectives:

To find out the suitable cropping pattern for the Jibannagar thana on the basis of land type and top soil texture using GIS technology, which can be used in future agricultural development planning for improving agricultural crop yields.

Methodology:

The methodology for this study is composed mainly of data collection procedures and manipulation, data analysis and interpretation technique in PC Arc/View. The methodology, which has been used for this study, is given below. Data Imported: The spatial data of Jibannagar thana comprising the required information have been collected from BARC- AEZ/GIS database structure. The data set includes administrative data, climatic data and soil polygon. Data Generated: In order to accumulate all the qualitative and quantitative data we followed the “Thana Nirdeshika (TN)” Booklet for the Jibannagar thana prepared by the Soil Resources Development Institute (SRDI), Ministry of Agriculture, Bangladesh. At first all data have been accumulated in Microsoft Excel file. After that, those excel files have been converted into three database file for the analysis in PC Arc/View. land_ type.dbf: The file named ‘land_type.dbf’ under the category of land type and that of corresponding map unit was generated using another database file. This database is comprised all the basic detail data such as, soil series, land area, land type based on Map Unit number of the TN.

Source of Information: J Agric Rural Dev 4(1&2), 175-180, June 2006 ISSN 1810-1860

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Achievement/Findings:

From this study it is found that four map units remain predominantly High Land (PHL), one HL and two predominantly Medium High Land (PMHL) which indicate to use winter crop, HYV rice, Broadcast Aus and Aman rice based cropping pattern.

Knowledge Management: Journal