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Mirzapur (Tangail)

Local Gov

A southern Tangail upazila on the Dhaka highway corridor, mixing rice agriculture with peri-urban and roadside commercial growth.

Wealth rank 376/452 (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

  1. urbanization Position on the Dhaka corridor drives the district's built-up expansion here, with roadside settlement and commerce spreading onto farmland. So what: Corridor sprawl converts cropland and strains local roads and drainage. Source: Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)
  2. agriculture Mirzapur's rice farming faces the district's documented warming and water-stress pressures alongside competition from urban land conversion. So what: Land loss and climate stress squeeze the agricultural base. Source: Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE)
  3. poverty Mirzapur records an RWI mean of 0.141, among the higher wealth deciles in the upazila distribution, helped by proximity to the Dhaka corridor. So what: Relative prosperity still leaves farmland and rural livelihoods vulnerable to displacement. Source: Meta Data for Good Relative Wealth Index (HDX)

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