期刊名称:International Journal of Environmental Protection and Policy
印刷版ISSN:2330-7528
电子版ISSN:2330-7536
出版年度:2015
卷号:3
期号:2-1
页码:35-39
DOI:10.11648/j.ijepp.s.2015030201.16
语种:English
出版社:Science Publishing Group
摘要:The availability, accessibility, utility and stability of food production and consumption interrupted due to the climatic transformation and intensity of salinity in the southwest salinity prone area of Bangladesh. 96.7% of the respondents can perceive climate change explicitly, among the 120 respondents of whom the mean age of the respondents was 50.6 years. 40.8% of the respondents responded that crops became more limited from 20 to 25 years ago. 43.3% of the respondents argued that salinity was responsible for the degradation of soil fertility. The problems of drinking water prevails that 29.79% of the respondents spent 61 taka to 80 taka monthly for water. 96.22% of the respondents availed microcredit facilities from NGO and 22.0% of the respondents used microcredit for purchasing food products. 64.2% of the respondents don’t consume nutritional foods and the day to day consumption highly depends on purchasing which was domestically produced few years ago.