Assessment and Analysis

Agriculture SituationUpdate

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

• Reduce scope of crop cultivation• Mortality of fruits and plantation crops• Affects soil health

Waterlogging Risks

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

• Affect Fertility• Decrease cultivable land area• Migration of agricultural labor

Erosion Risks

Lack of Irrigation Water Risks• Hamper irrigation• Reduce crop production and yield• Decrease cultivable land area

• Hamper irrigation• Reduce crop production and yield

Lack of Fresh Water Risks

Lack of Polder Management Risks• Erosion of soil• Hamper plantation crop• Outside siltation increase• Hamper drainage system

• Salinity increased• Washing of Land hamperred-Crop production and

yield decreased• Unavailability of irrigation water• Decrease cultivable land area

Lack of fresh water Flow Risks

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

Climate Change Risks

• Hamper crop production and yield• Soil degradation• Crops extinction• Affect homestead garden and Fodder cultivation

Salinity Risks

Lack of Appropriate technology Risks

Hamper food security

• 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

Technological and other options

Training for farmers on crop production under stress condition

Capacity building of the extension agents and officersCoordination among GOB/Donors and NGOsDevelopment of Early warning system on climatic

hazardsSeed storage facilities on cyclone and flood prone areasCommunity based extension approach (FFS)Conservation biodiversityAdaptive researchExtension-education-research

Technological and other options

Crop Type and Area Under Inundation

Assessment and Analysis

District Upazila Area under inundation(ha)

Seed bed of

T.AmanT.Aman Aus Vegetable

/ spices TotalPercentage

of inundation

Satkhira

1.Sadar 0 2000 800 0 2800 12.76

2.Kolaroa 50 3040 300 0 3390 20.95

3.Tala 460 1420 1450 970 4300 62.91

4.Debhata 75 2625 225 109 3034 49.94

5.kaligonj 380 4200 820 310 5710 42.63

6.Ashasuni 380 1480 45 0 1905 64.25

7.Shaymnagar 675 2700 250 290 3915 81.04

TOTAL 2020 17465 3890 1679 250054 34.69

Sadar & Tala83,452 farmers lost 10,860 hectares of aus and T aman rice crops, vegetables and tubers. 2012 yield reduction expected 20-30% (DLS)

Cropping Calendar

Assessment and Analysis

A typical crop calendar for Satkhira

Season Rice crop Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec System

Rabi Boro                     Irrigated

Kharif I Aus                         Rainfed

Kharif II T. Amon                         Rainfed

A typical Rice cropping System 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.

Economic Analysis

Assessment and Analysis

Crops Total land (ha) Total loss (‘000 Tk.)

T. Aus 3378 152010

T. Aman Seed Bed 908 4995

T. Aman 11736 528120

Spices 185 3700

Vegetables 918 110160

Total 17125 798985

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

• 142,800 chickens • 4,381 ducks • 62,800 cows• 58,500 goats• 1,280 sheep• 180 buffalo

Source: Department of Livestock Services (DLS)

Livestock Losses due to Water Logging

Assessment and Analysis

• Infrastructural losses were estimated around Tk. 217 lakh

Sadar & Tala18,840 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

• 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)

Fisheries Damages due to Water Logging

Assessment and Analysis

• Estimated financial loss due to inundation Tk. 30147.17 lakh

Joint FAO & GoB Interventions (2011)

Assessment and Analysis

Upazils FAO interventions GOB interventionsHH Kind of support HH Kind of support

Assasuni 1000 650

Fisheries-(800-Carpfingerlings and 5-fertilizers,50 kg feed/HHPoultry-18 chicken,120 kg feed& shed materials /HH

20 Seedlings of T.Aman Rice

Shymnagar 250 Poultry-18 chicken,120 kg feed & shed materials/HH

80 Seedlings of T.Aman Rice

Tala - - 20 Seedlings of T.Aman Rice

Debhata - - 20 Seedlings of T.Aman Rice

Total 1900 Fisheries/Poultry

140 T.Aman Rice

FAO Interventions (2011)

Assessment and Analysis

Sub components Original number of beneficiaries (as per project document)

Number of beneficiaries

(Implemented)

Crop componentBoro Rice 10,000 10,000Maize 3200 1944Horticulture (100% women ) 40,000 40,000Agriculture Machinery 10,000 10,000Low Lift Pump and pipes 2,500 2,500Aus Rice - 5,000Total of crop component 65,700 69,444

Goat 2,000 2,000Cow 700 700Chicken 5,000 5,000Livestock component 7,700 7,700

Fishery component

Aquaculture 7,800 7,800Capture Fishery (FRP boats) and boat building

810 145

Total of fishery component 8,610 7,945

Total 82,010 85,089

Assessment and Analysis

Sl. No. Upazila

Cultivation Area (ha)

Production Target (mt/ha)

Production(mt/ha)

Hybrid HYV Local Total HYV Local Hybrid HYV Local

1 Sadar 125 3610 - 3735

2.40 1.18

3.6 2.8 -

2 Kolaroa 275 3340 - 3615 3.13 3.04 -

3 Tala - 1795 10 1805 - 2.24 14

4 Debhata 10 600 - 610 3.6 2.58 -

5 Kaligonj 35 1855 - 1890 3.05 2.69 -

6 Assasuni 10 220 - 230 3.00 2.6 -

7 Shyamnagar - 380 - 380 - 2.75

Total 455 11800 10 12265 3.26 2.75 1.4

AUS

Status of Cultivation and production of Aus in 2010-11 and Aman in 2011-12

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

AMAN

Sl. No

Upazila Cultivation Area (ha)

Production Target (mt/ha)

Production(mt/ha)

Remarks

HYV Local Total HYV Local HYV Local

1 Sadar 17500 500 18000

2.72 1.60

2.90 1.4

Cultivation target could not be

achieved due to excess rainfall

2 Kolaroa 12310 40 12350 2.90 1.42

3 Tala 7540 800 8340 2.75 1.45

4 Debhata 5350 0 5350 2.74 -

5 Kaligonj 17320 80 17400 2.7 1.4

6 Assasuni 9090 240 9330 2.6 1.37

7 Shyamnagar 15470 840 16310 2.57 1.41

Total 84580 2500 87080 2.74 1.42

Status of Cultivation and production of Aus in 2010-11 and Aman in 2011-12

Assessment and Analysis

Upcoming GOB Support for Rice Farmers in Sathkhira District

No of farmers

to be supported

Area to be covered(in ha)

Inputs to be distributed

Aus Seed - HYV

(in mt)

Fertilizer (in mt)

TotalUrea TSP MOP

4615 615 23.075 92.300 46.150 46.150 42.6888

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

Upcoming FAO Interventions

Assessment and Analysis

Output 1. Suitable options for agricultural diversification in water-logged areas 2. Replication/up-scaling of new & improved floodplain seasonal fisheries & orchard management technologies & practices 3. Capacity building of DAE, DoF, service providers & farmers’ groups, associations, producer & marketing CBOs, etc

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

OVERALL GOAL: Reduce vulnerability (by improving food production and income generation) and develop coping mechanisms to protect livelihoods against future flooding and water-logging.

Upcoming FAO Interventions

Assessment and Analysis

Sub-component

Number of Groups

Number of Beneficiaries (HHs)

Type of intervention

Type of inputs

Crop production

100 Crop Farmer’s Groups

2500 beneficiary farmers (@ 25 farmers per group)

Crop seed & fertilizer

HYV rice seed & fertilizer (MOP, TSP, Urea)

50 Horticulture Farmer’s Groups

1250 beneficiary farmers (@ 25 farmers per group)

Horticulture 5 fruit tree saplings, 5-vegetable seed packets, fertilizer (NPK), spades and watering cans

Animal husbandry

20 Livestock Farmer’s Groups (landless/marginal livestock rearers)

500 beneficiary farmers (@ 25 farmers per group)

2 goats/sheep per HH with feed

Aquaculture 25 Fish Farmer’s Groups of farmers

625 small-scale fish farmers (carp or shrimp packages)

Packages of carp/shrimp (golda/bagda) and with lime, fertilizer and feed for each package

Total 195 Groups 4 875 HHs

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