Role Of Rainfall In Bangladesh

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Bangladesh is an agriculture-based country where better parts of its total people are directly or indirectly connected the wide range of agricultural activities. Rainfall is the most important natural catalyst that determines the agricultural production in Bangladesh. The productiveness of farmland as well as the firmness of land resources depends on heavily upon the rainfall. The variability of rainfall and the extreme high or low precipitations are very important for the agricultural production as well as the economical growth of the country. It is well known that the rainfall is changing globally; and the regional scales due to global warming .The climate on earth primarily influenced by monsoon and also partly by pre-monsoon and post-monsoon and winter circulations. Bangladesh is considered to be one of the most vulnerable countries for a change of climate rapidly and shortage or heavy rainfall. This is due to its unique geographic location, the dominance of floods and rising of sea level. During, the monsoon season it rains heavily, and there is the heavy rush of water from the mountains through our rivers. But the rivers can neither hold the water. As a result, the overflow their banks and cause flood. These floods cause heavy damage to our lives and properties. As per the records, the floods happened in 1984, 1987, 1988, 1998, 2004, 2007 and 2015 were beyond compare and irreparable loss of agricultural crops, infrastructures and dwelling houses of the inhabitants,

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