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Gaffargaon (Mymensingh)

Local Gov

A railway-junction upazila in the south of the district on the Brahmaputra plain, with a market and agrarian economy linked to Dhaka by rail.

Wealth rank 300/452 (1 = poorest upazila)

Indicators: Meta RWI (HDX); ERA5-Land; MODIS; Sentinel-5P; VIIRS night-lights; GHSL; Hansen v1.11; CHIRPS v2.0. Exposure: GloFAS v2.1, FABDEM, MODIS LST, ACAG PM2.5, WorldPop 2020.

Problems and issues

climate disaster Low-lying floodplain farmland is exposed to monsoon flooding during the high-rainfall season. So what: Flooding threatens rice harvests and rural livelihoods. Source: Bangladesh Water Development Board
water Negligible permanent surface water leaves dry-season irrigation dependent on groundwater and seasonal rivers. So what: Groundwater reliance raises irrigation costs and water-security risk. Source: Bangladesh Water Development Board

Probable solutions

Strengthen embankments and roll out flood-tolerant rice varieties with early-warning dissemination Responsible: Bangladesh Water Development Board · policy proposal
Expand surface-water irrigation and rural enterprise support through agricultural extension Responsible: Department of Agricultural Extension · policy proposal