This document provides an overview of agriculture in Bangladesh. It outlines that agriculture is the backbone of Bangladesh's economy, providing employment to around 48% of the labor force and contributing about 19.29% to GDP. The document discusses key agricultural statistics for Bangladesh and examines the importance and challenges of the agriculture sector, including problems related to climate change, population growth, and lack of modern machinery. It also reviews the various government agencies and organizations involved in the agriculture sector in Bangladesh.

1. Agriculture in Bangladesh
Presented by Ridwan Islam Sifat & Chowdhury
Tanvir Ahmed
Department of Development Studies,
Bangladesh University Of Professionals

2. Outline
 Introduction
 Bangladesh Agriculture at a Glance
 Importance of Agriculture
 Problems & Limitations
 Challenges
 Future Challenge
 Prospects of Agriculture
 Agricultural machinery
 Climate Change and Agriculture
 Why climate change matters for agriculture?
 How to Improve Agriculture Sector
 Agricultural agency
 Conclusion

3. Introduction
 Agriculture refers to all those activities which are related
to cultivation of land for the production of crops.
Agriculture is a backbone of Bangladesh economy and
prosperity if agriculture can largely stand for the prosperity
of the Bangladesh economy.
To maintain ecological balance, there must be balanced and
sustainable development of agriculture and its sector.

4. Bangladesh Agriculture at a glance
 Total farm holding : 1,51,83,183 hectares
 Total area : 14.86 million hectares
 Forest : 2.599 million hectare
 Cultivable land : 8.52 million hectares
 Cultivable waste : 0.268 million hectares
 Current fallow land : 0.469 million hectares
 Cropping intensity : 191%
 Single cropped area : 2.236 million hectares
 Double cropped area : 4.107 million hectares
 Triple cropped area : 1.485 million hectares
 Net cropped area : 7.837 million hectares
 Total cropped area : 14.943 million hectares

5. Importance of Agriculture
 Share in National Income : About one forth of Bangladesh’s GDP depends
on agriculture sector. Contribution of agriculture sector to Bangladesh
GDP is 19.29%.
 Share in Employment : Agriculture is the largest employment provider
sector in Bangladesh. It provides employment to around 48% of the total
labor force.
 Industrial Raw Materials : Agriculture supplies industrial raw material in
terns of cotton for textile industry, seeds for oil industry, sugarcane for
sugar industry.
 Wealth of nation: Large part of the country’s wealth belongs to
agriculture sector. In terms of land, fixed assets etc.
 Contribution to International trade & Domestic Trade.

6. Problems & Limitations
 Financial Problem
 Natural Disaster
 Promotion of New Inventions
 Improper Distribution of Seed & Fertilizer
 Mono-crop Production
 Accessibility to Weather Report
 Higher Input Cost of Production
 No Formal Road Transportation System
 Coordination Between Government & Private Stakeholders
 Lengthy Decision Making Process
 Crop Pest Control

7. Challenges
 Climate Change and variations
 Over Population
 Less Land More Production
 Irrigation and Electricity and Fuel
 Lowering Ground Water Level In Dry Season
 Loosing Fertility & Excessive Land Use
 Excessive Use of Fertilizer & Pesticides
 Loosing Underground Water Level
 Poverty Alleviation for Agriculture
 Continuous Deforestation
 Hybrid Seed
 Farakka Dam

9. Prospects of Agriculture
 Coastal Forestation
 Tea Production
 Some Other Revolutionary Invention
 Hybrid Seeds
 Government Funding for Research
 Self Dependent on Rice Production
 Crop Cycle
 Seasonal Fruits Out of Season
 Monga Situation
 Self Employment for Youth
 Middlemen in Distribution
 Successful Control over Bird-Flu

10. Shykh Seraj (born 28 June 1956) is
a Bangladeshi journalist, media
personality and agriculture
development activist.
Seraj co-anchored a TV series Mati O Manush
(Men and Soil). The TV program featured
investigative documentaries and in-depth
reporting and points out solutions to the
various problems that farmers face.

11. Agricultural machinery
 Spade (kodal)
 Indigenous country plough (langal)
 Single animal drawn plough
(mohisher langal)
 Ladder (moi)
 Mallet (mugur)
 Hydrotiller
 Tractor

12. Traditional agricultural machinery Modern agricultural machinery

13. Climate change and agriculture
Climate change and
agriculture are
interrelated process, both
of which take place on a
global scale. Climate
change is already
affecting agriculture, with
effects unevenly
distributed across the
world. Climate change
affects number of ways.

14. Why climate change matters for agriculture?
Average temperature
Rainfall
Climate extremes
Changes in pests and diseases
changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide
Ground level ozone concentrations
 changes in the nutritional quality of some food
changes in sea level

15. Agricultural agency
 Ministry of Agriculture (MOA)
 Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE)
 Agriculture Information Service (AIS)
 Department of Agricultural Marketing (DAM)
 Cotton Development Board (CDB)
 Seed Certification Agency (SCA)
 Central Extension Resources Development
Institute (CERDI)
 Bangladesh Agricultural Development
Corporation (BADC)
 Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC)
 Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI)
 Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI)
 Soil Resources Development Institute (SRDI)

16. How to Improve Agriculture Sector
Government Intervention
Access to Information
Technogical Advancement
Educative the Farmers
 Ensure Aid from Different NGOs

17. Conclusion
 Agriculture is the single largest producing sector of
economy since it comprises about 30% of the country's GDP
and employing around 60% of the total labor force.
 The performance of this sector has an overwhelming
impact on major macroeconomic objectives like
employment generation, poverty alleviation, human
resources development and food security.
 Meeting the nation's food requirements remain the key-
objective of the government and in recent years there has
been substantial increase in grain production.