Agriculture sector
Agricultural production in Bangladesh is highly influenced by different seasonal climatic variables such as high fluctuations of day and night temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, high carbon dioxide concentrations, humidity and day-length. It is also adversely affected by different climatic disasters such as floods, cyclones, storm surges and sea level rise.
In the northwest region, there is a strong possibility that moisture content of the topsoil would decrease substantially due to decrease in winter precipitation and higher evapo-transpiration. An early rabi drought would more severely affect wheat and boro crops at both germination and vegetative growth stages.
Degradation of productive land including quality and physical loss are key concern for coastal agriculture due to salinity intrusion and sea level rise.
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