The present study identifies and quantifies appropriate sites for brackish water aquaculture development in southwestern Bangladesh using remote sensing, GPS and geographical information systems (GIS). A colour composite Landsat TM image from 1996 covering the southwestern part of Bangladesh was used to identify the extent of brackish water and to classify land use. The remotely sensed data wer...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the progress and regional variations of crop production in Bangladesh. The secondary data were used and collected for the years 1980-81 to 2002-03 from the ‘Statistical Yearbooks of Bangladesh’, ‘Yearbook of Agricultural Statistics’ and population census of different years. The study was conducted during the period from September 2006 to February 2008. A...

Faruq Hasan M. 2008. Economic Efficiency and Constraints of Maize Production in the Northern Region of Bangladesh. j. innov.dev.strategy 1(1): 18-32 The study was conducted at the Sadar upazila of Dinajpur and Panchagarh to estimate the costs, returns and economic efficiency of maize production compared to Boro rice. The growth rate of maize in the country and constraints to maize production at...

Although human exposure to arsenic is thought to be caused mainly through arsenic-contaminated underground drinking water, the use of this water for irrigation enhances the possibility of arsenic uptake into crop plants. Rice is the staple food grain in Bangladesh. Arsenic content in straw, grain and husk of rice is especially important since paddy fields are extensively irrigated with undergro...

In Bangladesh as many as 57 million people drink water with arsenic levels that exceed the 10-ppb limit set by the World Health Organization. Arsenic occurs naturally in high concentrations in groundwater in Bangladesh. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in Dhaka now report that ponds resulting from...

In Bangladesh as many as 57 million people drink water with arsenic levels that exceed the 10-ppb limit set by the World Health Organization. Arsenic occurs naturally in high concentrations in groundwater in Bangladesh. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in Dhaka now report that ponds resulting from...