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An Assessment of Flood Shocking Tears Down: a Case Study in Bogura District

A.T.M. Rezaul Hoque
Department of Economics, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur-5200, Bangladesh

A.N.H. Angona
Post Graduate Student
Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Babor Ahmad
MSS Student
Department of Economics, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur-5200, Bangladesh.

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

This study was conducted on two chars of Bogura district using primary data and aims at the understanding of how flood affects the rural poor living in the char lands. The study revealed that floods have long-term negative implications on socio-economic status. According to the survey, the most affected sector was agriculture (54.03%), followed by property (28.66%) and health (19.71%), diseases as Diarrhea occurred at alarming levels (76.07%) in the study areas. In the study year, food availability and roads communications were also highly affected by floods. Floods make people vulnerable; as they take away their livelihoods at the first instance and leave them with little resources to overcome the situation. Because of floods, rural poor communities face a job loss, and two-thirds of their income is reduced, which limits their capabilities of preparedness, response, and recovery to subsequent floods. People cope with the situation by bearing substantial debts and a loss of productive assets. It also examines the impacts of the flood on the livelihood of the rural poor and explores their coping strategies and also observers it as a positive ingredient for fertility and soil improvement. However, the present study captures both positive and negative.

Keywords: Char land, Flood, Livelihood, Rural poor

Location: Sariakandi Upazila of Bogura district.

Start Date: 00-00-2019

End Date: 00-00-2019

Program Area: Risk Management in Agriculture

Commodity: Flood

Objectives:

The increasing exposure of people and property to hazards of flooding and the documentation of longer-term flood impacts on communities especially on its socio-economic sector.

Methodology:

This cross-sectional narrative study was carried out in the selected villages under Sariakandi Upazila of Bogura district. A door-to-door survey was conducted among the villagers to find out the sample group of this study. The survey was carried out for finding out the affected populations in flood and riverbank erosion of the village. People, whom we got by during a survey, were the samples of this study. The sample selection procedure of this study was purposive. The survey has been conducted through a simple self-developed questionnaire. Two sets of data were used in this study namely primary data and secondary data. Primary data were generated through a sample survey. Considering the time and resource constraints 60 farm households from each village (total 120 households) were selected. The selected farms were surveyed after the flood season of 2019. Secondary data would also be used to supplement the analysis. In this respect, data from different statistical documents published under the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), Different local NGOs, published scientific papers, books, and research working papers would also be used as sources of secondary data in this study.

Source of Information: Res. Agric., Livest. Fish.8(1): 65-73, April 2021

Article Link (Online Journal): DOI: https://doi.org/10.3329/ralf.v8i1.53269

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Achievement/Findings:

Flood is a part of the lives of the people of Sariakandi. Due to floods, people living in this area lose their property, reduce income, lose their lives sometimes, and to cope with this loss they face a high interest of loans which ensures their perpetual poverty as well as low living standard. Flood also brings fertility of the land which may help in their production system in the next phase of the flood. In order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) along with the community, government and local institutions need to find effective alternative solutions to minimize the adverse impacts of floods on the livelihood of the rural poor and to find suitable coping mechanisms that will not lead to more vulnerability.

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