Unplanned housing, infrastructure cuts down cropland
May 20, 2009
The dwindling size of farms, rise in landlessness and constant depletion of farmland are posing formidable threats to Bangladesh’s agriculture, increasing poverty and trapping many ultra-poor people in a vicious circle, according to various reports.
The average farm size has been reduced to less than 0.6 hectares and the percentage of landless people stands at 58 in a country where nearly 80 per cent of the ultra-poor live in rural areas.
Official statistics also show that the country is losing more than one per cent or 80,000 hectares each Full Article on NewAgebd
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