Subsistence

Farming By
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Case study:
Bangladesh!
 Lesson Objectives
In this lesson you will:

1. Define Subsistence farming

2. Outline the types of Subsistence Farming systems
3. Analyse Bangladesh’s Farming system and explain how it works
4. Give features of the rice farming landscape of Bangladesh
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Subsistence Farming Case Study: Bangladesh.

Table of
Contents!
Overview About the topic
General explanation of The Intensive rice farming
subsistence farming landscape

Main Focus Assignment topic

A case study on the farming Answer a question
system in Bangladesh
 01
Definition
What is subsistence farming?
Definition

Subsistence farming is farming

that produces only enough food
for the farmer and his family
( with perhaps a little left over to
sell)
Advantages and
Disadvantages
Of Subsistence
Farming
 02
Case Study
Bangladesh
 Case study:
Bangladesh
Most agricultural production in Bangladesh
is characterized as traditional subsistence
farming
Bangladesh has one of
the highest population
densities in the world.
Almost half its 161
million people work in
Agriculture, with rice
being by far the most
important crop se G eograp
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What are the
main food ● Rice
stuffs?  Due to the expansion of irrigation
networks, some wheat producers have
switched to cultivation of maize which
is used mostly as poultry feed.[2] Tea is
grown in the northeast

● Jute
● Maize
● Vegetables
● Tea grown in the Northest

Crops farmed in
Bagladesh
Rice
Bangladesh is the fourth
largest rice[6] producing
country in the world.
National sales of the
classes of insecticide used
on rice have increased since
2003. Not only though they
represent an environmental
threat, but are a
significant expenditure to
poor rice farmers. The
Bangladesh Rice Research
Institute is working with
various NGOs and
international organizations
to reduce insecticide use in
rice.
The Rice
Farming
Process
Feautures of a rice farming
landscape include
1. 3.
Fruit trees to add diet Low waslls (called
bunds) built to keep
water in padi fields

2. 4.
Animals used for Fish may be added to
ploughing instead of padi fields to add
expensive machines protein diet.
Environment
al Issues
 Insecticides Climate Change
National sales of the classes of  In most countries like
insecticide used on rice, including Bangladesh, yields from
granular carbofuran, synthetic rain-fed agriculture was
pyrethroids, and malathion exceeded
13,000 tons of formulated product in
predicted to be reduced to
2003 50% by 2020
56.9m tonnes

In 2021, rice, paddy

production for Bangladesh
Graphical
Interpretations

Climate graph for Bangladesh Rice production in Bangladesh

2000-2018
 200
This is the number of kg
a person eats averagely
in Bangladesh for a
year
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