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Groundwater Dynamics and Rainfall Data Analysis In
IOSR Journal Of Environmental Science, Toxicology And Food Technology (IOSR-JESTFT) e-ISSN: 2319-2402,p- ISSN: 2319-2399. Volume 4, Issue 2 (May. - Jun. 2013), PP 65-72 www.Iosrjournals.Org Groundwater Dynamics in Pabna District, Bangladesh 1 2 3 M Saiful Islam, Alam M K, Rahman M A 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Govt. Edward College, Pabna, Bangladesh 2Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Pabna University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh 3 Lecturer, Department of Applied Physics & Electronic Engineering, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh Abstract: Groundwater is an important segment of the hydrologic cycle and constitutes about one third of world’s fresh water reserves. It has distinct advantages over surface water resources. It is the most dependable resource and is available almost everywhere on land phases. It is hard to overstate the importance of groundwater in the life and economy of Bangladesh. Groundwater supplies over 90% of drinking water requirements and the vast majority of irrigation water. It is the only source of water supply for drinking and main source of irrigation in the area studied. The increased demands due to over population and development activities have stimulated investigations oriented towards quantifications of this resource. The large scale abstraction of groundwater for irrigation, without proper planning and management, has caused much environmental degradation. So, a detailed study is now essential for the conservation of this important resource in the specific area. Proper utilization of groundwater greatly precedes the analysis of static water levels in various extents of this inexhaustible resource. The increasing demand placed on it has stimulated to identify of this resource, which would be the basic of its exploration, management and conservation. -
World Bank Document
RP1753 V2 REV Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized VOL 2 Resettlement Action Plan EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Introduction land, especially from the existing BWDB embankment. Along the 50 km priority reach, a total The length of the proposed River Management of 5,751 entities have been affected by the project Improvement Project (RMIP) is about 147 km from from which 3,480 residential households, 148 Jamuna Bangabandhu Bridge approach road to business units, 84 residence-cum business and 78 Teesta Bridge. The flood and riverbank erosion community properties will be physically displaced. component of the program will be implemented in Apart from this 1,437 households are losing only two phases, starting with the 50 km long priority agricultural land plots. reach (the Project or RMIP-I) from Shimla (Sirajganj Sadar Upazila) to Hasnapara (Sariakandi Upazila) and Project Affected Area followed by the remaining works (RMIP-II) consisting of a 17km reach between Jamuna Bridge access road The program/project is located in northern central and Simla and the approximately 70km long reach part of Bangladesh in Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions between Hasnapara and the newly established covering four districts namely Sirajganj, Bogra, Teesta Bridge near Chilmari. The alignment of RMIP-I Gaibandha and Kurigram. The RMIP is about 147km is running through 4 upazilas under the districts of along the Central Jamuna Right Embankment 2 Bogra and Sirajganj. A total of 5,751 households will (historically known as Brahmaputra Right be affected by the project from which 3,4801 Embankment (BRE) from which 50km has been residential households will be displaced from their prioritised as first batch for construction of an homestead. -
Farmers' Technology, Economic Performance and Relative Economic Efficiency of Country Bean Growers
Bangladesh J. Agric. Econs. XX, 1(1997): 85-96 Research Note FARMERS' TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND RELATIVE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF COUNTRY BEAN GROWERS S.M. Fakhrul Islam Md. Rezaul Karim ABSTRACT This paper examined farmers' country bean production technology and proposed an econometric model for estimating the normalized profit distribution function using a Three Staged Generalized Method of Moment procedure. The advantage of the model is that it used Cobb-Douglas form of profit function which is linear in logarithm. The second moment function of profit can be used for measuring risk involved in input use under uncertainty. Furthermore, the results could be used for testing relative economic efficiency of growers'. The empirical data on country bean production validated the model. The result showed that fertilizers and pesticides were risk increasing inputs in country bean production. The small farmers were found to be more efficient. The study concludes that under uncertain environmental condition, relative economic efficiency can be assessed through estimation of normalized profit distribution function. I. INTRODUCTION Country bean (Dalichos lablab) is an indigenous vegetable of Indo-Bangladesh region. The plant is long trailing and branched. It is treated as a perennial crop at some places. It is a very important vegetable of Bangladesh and India. In terms of dry matter, calorie, protein, fat, vitamin A and B, the pods are superior to most other vegetables of creeping nature. Nutritionally, the seed is also nearly at the top of the pulse's list. Country bean is very rich in carbohydrate, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals. In the past years, it was a homestead vegetable in Bangladesh but recently it is cultivated commercially as field crop in flood free high land. -
Application of GIS in General Soil Mapping of Bangladesh
Journal of Geographic Information System, 2017, 9, 604-621 http://www.scirp.org/journal/jgis ISSN Online: 2151-1969 ISSN Print: 2151-1950 Application of GIS in General Soil Mapping of Bangladesh Md. Azharul Islam*, Md. Amit Hasan, Murad Ahmed Farukh Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh How to cite this paper: Islam, Md.A., Abstract Hasan, Md.A. and Farukh, M.A. (2017) Application of GIS in General Soil Map- Bangladesh is a densely populated country where food crisis is one of the ma- ping of Bangladesh. Journal of Geographic jor issues where proper soil mapping is lacking till now. The purpose of this Information System, 9, 604-621. study is to prepare soil mapping of Bangladesh including different soil factors https://doi.org/10.4236/jgis.2017.95038 like pH, salinity, nutrients, texture, porosity, toxicity etc., along with general Received: August 24, 2017 soil types and land availability through application of Geographical Informa- Accepted: October 28, 2017 tion System (GIS). Q-GIS software and secondary data are used in this study. Published: October 31, 2017 In present study, it was found that 12 types of soil texture were present in all around of Bangladesh and the maximum percentage of soil porosity values Copyright © 2017 by authors and varied from 20% to 70%. A medium range of soil organic matter and strongly Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative acidic soil was found all around the Bangladesh. It was found that the south- Commons Attribution International ern part of Bangladesh had slightly saline to highly saline soil. -
Land Resource Appraisal of Bangladesh for Agricultural
BGD/81/035 Technical Report 3 Volume II LAND RESOURCES APPRAISAL OF BANGLADESH FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT REPORT 3 LAND RESOURCES DATA BASE VOLUME II SOIL, LANDFORM AND HYDROLOGICAL DATA BASE A /UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FAo FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION vJ OF THE UNITED NATIONS BGD/81/035 Technical Report 3 Volume II LAND RESOURCES APPRAISAL OF BANGLADESH FOR AGRICULTURALDEVELOPMENT REPORT 3 LAND RESOURCES DATA BASE VOLUME II SOIL, LANDFORM AND HYDROLOGICAL DATA BASE Report prepared for the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations acting as executing agency for the United Nations Development Programme based on the work of H. Brammer Agricultural Development Adviser J. Antoine Data Base Management Expert and A.H. Kassam and H.T. van Velthuizen Land Resources and Agricultural Consultants UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Rome, 1988 The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and AgricultureOrganization of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored ina retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopyingor otherwise, without the prior perrnission of (he copyright owner. Applications for such permission,with a statement of the purpose and extent of the reproduction, should be addressedto the Director, Publications Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Viadelle Terme di Caracarla, 00100 Home, Italy. -
Change Detection of Rice Cultivation in Bangladesh Based on the Phenological Analysis of MODIS Data
Advances in Remote Sensing, 2015, 4, 319-329 Published Online December 2015 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/ars http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ars.2015.44026 Change Detection of Rice Cultivation in Bangladesh Based on the Phenological Analysis of MODIS Data Tarulata Shapla1,2, Jonggeol Park3, Chiharu Hongo1, Hiroaki Kuze1 1Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan 2Department of Agroforestry and Environmental Science, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh 3Graduate School of Informatics, Tokyo University of Information Sciences, Chiba, Japan Received 31 October 2015; accepted 14 December 2015; published 17 December 2015 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Mapping rice cultivation is indispensable for monitoring food supply conditions in Bangladesh because of the economical importance of the crop for supporting ever increasing population in the country. In this paper, we extract the rice paddy field using the MODIS satellite data for five dis- tricts of Pabna, Manikganj, Sherpur, Sylhet, and Gazipur, each of which is characterized with its own aspects in terms of rice cultivation. Land classification is implemented using the vegetation index information derived from the red (band 1) and near-infrared (band 2) bands of MODIS 8-day composite time series data for the two time periods of 2001-2003 and 2011-2013. Results of unsupervised classification indicate that the paddy area coverage increased about 4% and 1% in Gazipur and Sylhet, respectively. In Pabna, Manikganj, and Sherpur, on the other hand, paddy area decreased by 10%, 2% and 5%, respectively, whereas notable increase of 12%, 2% and 7% was found in homestead area coverage, which is becoming more and more important for better man- agement of small-scale agroforestry. -
AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK and FISHERIES
Research in ISSN : P-2409-0603, E-2409-9325 AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK and FISHERIES An Open Access Peer Reviewed Journal Open Access Res. Agric. Livest. Fish. Research Article Vol. 4, No. 3, December 2017: 201-208. DIVERSITY IN MORPHOLOGY AND PIGMENTATION PATTERNS OF LOCAL PABNA CATTLE IN BANGLADESH Md. Azharul Islam Talukder1, Md. Shahjahan2*, Mohammed Sirajul Islam2 and Sirazum Munira2 1Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute, Savar, Dhaka-1341, 2Bangladesh; Livestock Research Institute, Regional Station, Baghabari, Sahajadpur, Sirajgonj- 6770, Bangladessh *Corresponding author: Md. Shahjahan; E-mail: [email protected] ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Received The study was aimed to reveal the morphological features of local Pabna cattle at 04 December, 2017 Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute (BLRI), Regional Station, Sirajganj and community levels. Data of various morphological features were collected from total Accepted 24 cattle from on-station and 8 cattle from community. It was observed that most of 24 December, 2017 the morphological features were not varied between the studied cattle populations except body length, height at wither, pelvic length, tail dock circumference and mouth Online circumference (p <0.05). Pigmentation pattern revealed that light red was dominated 31 December, 2017 for coat color in both cattle population while black color was most frequently Key words observed in muzzle, eyelid, eyelash, horn, hoof, dew claw and tail switch. As most of the phenotypic observation and pigmentation patterns were unique between two Indigenous cattle existing Pabna cattle population, an open nucleus breeding system might be Phenotypic enhanced the desire dairy breed development from those cattle population regarding characterization the uniformity of morphological features. Pigmentation Nucleus breeding To cite this article: Talukder MAI, M Shahjahan, MS Islam and S Munira, 2017. -
Investigation on Anthrax in Bangladesh During the Outbreaks of 2011 and Definition of the Epidemiological Correlations
pathogens Article Investigation on Anthrax in Bangladesh during the Outbreaks of 2011 and Definition of the Epidemiological Correlations Domenico Galante 1 , Viviana Manzulli 1,* , Luigina Serrecchia 1, Pietro Di Taranto 2, Martin Hugh-Jones 3, M. Jahangir Hossain 4,5, Valeria Rondinone 1, Dora Cipolletta 1, Lorenzo Pace 1 , Michela Iatarola 1, Francesco Tolve 1, Angela Aceti 1, Elena Poppa 1 and Antonio Fasanella 1 1 Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale of Puglia and Basilicata, Anthrax Reference Institute of Italy, 71121 Foggia, Italy; [email protected] (D.G.); [email protected] (L.S.); [email protected] (V.R.); [email protected] (D.C.); [email protected] (L.P.); [email protected] (M.I.); [email protected] (F.T.); [email protected] (A.A.); [email protected] (E.P.); [email protected] (A.F.) 2 Servizio Igiene degli Allevamenti e delle Produzioni Zootecniche—Asl 02 Abruzzo Lanciano—Vasto-Chieti, 66054 Vasto, Italy; [email protected] 3 Department of Environmental Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5705, USA; [email protected] 4 International International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Programme on Infectious Diseases & Vaccine Sciences, Health System & Infectious Disease Division, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), 1212 Dhaka, Bangladesh; [email protected] 5 Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 273 Banjul, The Gambia * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +39-0881786330 Citation: Galante, D.; Manzulli, V.; Serrecchia, L.; Taranto, P.D.; Abstract: In 2011, in Bangladesh, 11 anthrax outbreaks occurred in six districts of the country. -
Violence Originated from Facebook: a Case Study in Bangladesh
Violence originated from Facebook: A case study in Bangladesh Matiur Rahman Minar Jibon Naher Department of Computer Science and Engineering Department of Computer Science and Engineering Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology Chittagong-4349, Bangladesh Chittagong-4349, Bangladesh [email protected] [email protected] Abstract—Facebook as in social network is a great innovation We are going to discuss the incidents in section II. In section of modern times. Among all social networking sites, Facebook is III, we will analyze the cases, discuss the similarities and the the most popular social network all over the world. Bangladesh is links with social network i.e. Facebook. Section IV is about no exception. People use Facebook for various reasons e.g. social networking and communication, online shopping and business, some possible recommendations about how we can prevent knowledge and experience sharing etc. However, some recent these kind of violence from technology perspectives. incidents in Bangladesh, originated from or based on Facebook activities, led to arson and violence. Social network i.e. Facebook II. CASE OVERVIEW was used in these incidents mostly as a tool to trigger hatred In recent 5-6 years, quite a number of incidents happened, and violence. This case study discusses these technology related incidents and recommends possible future measurements to where Facebook was the trigger to initiate the violent situ- prevent such violence. ations. We are going to discuss these cases in descending Index Terms—Human-computer interaction, Social network, manner, starting from the latest. Relevant pictures of these Facebook, Technology misuse, Violence, Bangladesh violence are added, which are collected from referenced news articles. -
Key Statistics May 2018 Official Capacity of Actual Population In
Improvement of the Real Situation of Overcrowding in Prisons in Bangladesh (IRSOP) [A joint project of Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) and GIZ] Key Statistics May 2018 Official capacity of Actual population in Prisoners in Bangladesh 36,614 Prisons 86,433 As of 31/05/2018 | Source: Prisons Directorate, Bangladesh Achievements by the Paralegal Advisory Services (PAS) from March’09 to May’18 Released on Bail, Discharged and Acquitted* 19,400 - PAS Interventions 553,032 Achievements by the Paralegal Advisory Services (PAS) from December’13 to May’18 Persons assisted in Courts Persons assisted in Police 217,568 Stations 21,487 Reducing Recidivism from December’13 to May’18 Person attended Skill Identified Drug dependent Drug dependent prisoners Development Training prisoners for referral received Counselling and 9,700 13,200 other services 8,999 Mediation, Restorative Justice and Diversion from October’13 to May’18 Mediation Restorative Justice Diversion 9,613 6,825 10,543 *Prisoners released through project interventions from January’09 to May’18 Released on Bail, Name of the Prison Official Capacity Actual Prisoners Under trial Convicted Discharged & Acquitted* Barishal Central Jail 633 1276 858 67% 418 33% 739 Bogura District Jail 720 2298 2013 88% 285 12% 2414 Brahmanbaria District Jail 504 1300 1110 85% 190 15% 105 Chandpur District Jail 200 578 476 82% 102 18% 645 Chattogram Central Jail 1853 7708 7014 91% 694 9% 880 Cumilla Central Jail 1742 2983 2314 78% 669 22% 905 Dhaka Central Jail** 4590 9797 7955 81% 1842 19% 4834 Dinajpur District -
Preservation and Conservation of Architectural Heritage of Pabna City
International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 7, Issue 7, July-2016 1516 ISSN 2229-5518 Preservation and Conservation of Architectural Heritage of Pabna City Audity Biswas (Lecturer, Dept. of Architecture, PUST) Abstract -Heritage building conservation , adaptive re-use of buildings is often the only way that the historic aesthetic values can be saved economically and heritage buildings can be brought up to contemporary standards. Under the colonial discourses, rapid changes have been occurred in every aspects of socio-cultural and economical perspective in whole Bengal As a part of its continuation a large number of colonial buildings of are exits in Pabna city most of them are in a vulnerable condition. This study aim to a straight –forward practical solution and alternative approach that may be adopted for compliance with building archaeology of pabna city .This paper describes the historical site of Pabna in respect of planning tools- “preservation and Conservation’’ .Methodology is build up in respect of identification of Heritage Sites in detailed Area Plan description and review primary and secondary documents. Keywords: Archaeology, Heritage, Preservation, Conservation, Culture, Context —————————— —————————— 1. INTRODUCTION Preservation involves keeping an object from destruction and seeing to it that the object is not irredeemably altered or changed. Preservation dictates that in order to retain the maximum amount of building fabric, repairs must be done with minimal or no changes to the original building fabric and in like materials, and if possible using the same methods as first created. In conservation, the absolute maximum amount of the original material, in as unaltered a condition as possible is preserved. -
Small Scale Broiler Farming at Santhia Upazilla of Pabna District of Bangladesh
Small scale broiler farming at Santhia upazilla of Pabna District of Bangladesh F Sultana*1, H Khatun2, A Islam1 1Department of Poultry Science; 2Department of Animal Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh 2202, Bangladesh Abstract The experiment was conducted for profiling the existing broiler farming at Santhia upazilla under Pabna District during the period from February to March, 2012. Data were collected using an interview schedule from 50 randomly selected respondents who were involved in broiler farming. In this study out of 50 respondents 60% were engaged in agriculture, 36% businessman and 4% were in services. About 48% respondents had small size farms (100-500 birds), 40% had medium (501-1000 birds) and remaining were large size (1001-2000 birds). Most of the respondents reared Cobb-500 strain, those were purchased from Kazi Farms Ltd. Out of 50 respondents 30% took necessary suggestions from the experienced farmers, 90% farmers regularly vaccinated their broilers and 70% farmers taken short training on broiler farming. About 78% respondents considered market weight as 1.5 kg per bird, whereas the rest 22% sold broiler weighing about 1.8 kg per bird. Most of the respondents (64%) sold broiler at 30-33 d of age and about 80% respondents marketing their broiler at 110-115 taka per kg live bird. About 36% respondents had production cost approximately 90-95 taka per kg bird. In this study, about 36% respondents reported more marketing age of birds, 32% reported higher cost of production and 30% reported lack of training facilities. In conclusion, the result of present study could be considered useful to farmers and researchers to identify the overall problems and their remedies on management and marketing related to broiler production.