Rice productivity in Bangladesh: What are you the benefits of irrigation?

Agricultural production in Bangladesh has undergone dramatic changes over the past several decades. Green Revolution technologies transformed the agriculture system in the country through the introduction of highyielding rice and wheat varieties, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and the expansio...

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Main Authors: Bell, Andrew R., Bryan, Elizabeth, Ringler, Claudia, Ahmed, Akhter
Format: Book Chapter
Language:Inglés
Published: University Press Limited 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142103
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description Agricultural production in Bangladesh has undergone dramatic changes over the past several decades. Green Revolution technologies transformed the agriculture system in the country through the introduction of highyielding rice and wheat varieties, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and the expansion of tube well-irrigated area, enabling crop production during the dry season (e.g. Hossain 1988; Sen, Mujeri, and Shahabuddin 2004; Timmer 2005). As a result, yields of key staples, namely rice but also wheat, have increased as has food availability. However, serious challenges continue to plague the agriculture sector. These include scarcity of land due to high population density, unbalanced use of fertilizers and pesticides, great variation in water supply across seasons from drought to stagnant flood conditions, resource degradation due to over-application of chemicals and intensive year-round cultivation of rice, climate change and related extreme climatic events.
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spelling CGSpace1421032025-11-06T03:57:11Z Rice productivity in Bangladesh: What are you the benefits of irrigation? Bell, Andrew R. Bryan, Elizabeth Ringler, Claudia Ahmed, Akhter agricultural production rice irrigation agricultural productivity Agricultural production in Bangladesh has undergone dramatic changes over the past several decades. Green Revolution technologies transformed the agriculture system in the country through the introduction of highyielding rice and wheat varieties, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and the expansion of tube well-irrigated area, enabling crop production during the dry season (e.g. Hossain 1988; Sen, Mujeri, and Shahabuddin 2004; Timmer 2005). As a result, yields of key staples, namely rice but also wheat, have increased as has food availability. However, serious challenges continue to plague the agriculture sector. These include scarcity of land due to high population density, unbalanced use of fertilizers and pesticides, great variation in water supply across seasons from drought to stagnant flood conditions, resource degradation due to over-application of chemicals and intensive year-round cultivation of rice, climate change and related extreme climatic events. 2021-10-27 2024-05-22T12:09:57Z 2024-05-22T12:09:57Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142103 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9789845063715 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134737 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.05.019 Open Access application/pdf University Press Limited Bell, Andrew R.; Bryan, Elizabeth; Ringler, Claudia; and Ahmed, Akhter. 2021. Rice productivity in Bangladesh: What are you the benefits of irrigation? In Securing Food for All in Bangladesh, eds. Akhter Ahmed, Nurul Islam, and Mustafa K. Mujeri. Part Two: Input Use and Agricultural Productivity, Chapter 4, Pp. 109-127. Dhaka, Bangladesh: University Press Limited. https://doi.org/10.2499/9789845063715_04
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agricultural productivity
Bell, Andrew R.
Bryan, Elizabeth
Ringler, Claudia
Ahmed, Akhter
Rice productivity in Bangladesh: What are you the benefits of irrigation?
title Rice productivity in Bangladesh: What are you the benefits of irrigation?
title_full Rice productivity in Bangladesh: What are you the benefits of irrigation?
title_fullStr Rice productivity in Bangladesh: What are you the benefits of irrigation?
title_full_unstemmed Rice productivity in Bangladesh: What are you the benefits of irrigation?
title_short Rice productivity in Bangladesh: What are you the benefits of irrigation?
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topic agricultural production
rice
irrigation
agricultural productivity
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