Causes Of Drought In Bangladesh

9.2 NEWLY EXPERIENCED DISASTERS OF THE RESEARCH AREA/ NEWLY INTRODUCED HAZARDS AND ITS RISK AREA

9.2.1 Drought

Drought is identified as the one of the worst disaster at some FGD. Nowadays Drought occurred from Magh to Chaitra Bangla month a newer phenomenon in an increasing trend. The rise of temperature make the shortage of moisture at crop field and lack of irrigation facility due to groundwater depression make the situation worst. So that, Farmers now irrigating water from the nearest river or using ground water by the shallow engine which makes their cultivation more costly. Besides these, sources of this said irrigation water also shrinking due to river-bed become dried (Ali Toufique, IqbaL, Ahmed, & Donna, 2013). It makes farmers gradually

There are lots of Case of the Death of Human and Cattle by thunderstorm from the Atgaon Union. Recently Disaster ministry have declared the Hailstorm as a Disaster of Bangladesh after many incident of Human Death at different area of the country due to Thunderstorm in recent years. The group recommends more trees at haor to absorb thunder that could save their life at deep haor area.

Bangladesh has seen a near-record number (261 people) of deaths this year from a phenomenon that appears to be worsening with climate change: lightning strikes. Most lightning deaths usually occur during the warm months of March to July. The problem has prompted Bangladesh 's government to add lightning strikes to the country 's list of official types of disasters, which includes floods, cyclones and storm surges, earthquakes, drought and riverbank erosion, among others. As a result, the government now compensates lightning strike victims or their families with sums between 7,500 and 25,000 taka ($95 to $310). Through mid-May the government had paid 1.5 million taka ($18,400) in claims this year to families of 81 people who died because of

Researchers also predicting longer drier condition will prevail in the NE region, where the highest rainfall occurs at present. (Islam, Murshed, Khan, & Hasan, 2014). Farmer needs rains in Falgun and magh for good harvest which is now not occurred regularly whereas the rainfall now occurred at Baishakh regularly which is harmful for cultivation by damaging crops. The policy study on the probable impacts of climate change on poverty and economic growth in Bangladesh (BCAS 2009), which attempted to assess the potential adverse effects of climate change, projected a 40 percent reduction in crop production from drought and a 30 percent reduction from erratic rainfall. Same observation have come from the FGD participants of the study. Alam, Quayum, & Islam, (2010) claims that more post-harvest loss happened due to heavy