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Impact of intensive cropping on the degradation of natural resources in some selected AEZ Regions of Bangladesh

Bangladesh has made significant progress towards achieving its goal of food grain self sufficiency. This achievement has been made based on a substantial intensification of modern crop varieties; an increasing proportion of land use by double- or triple-crops; and use of agrochemicals that has tripled since the early 1980s. There has been rising concern, however, that intensive agriculture may be undermining Bangladesh’s natural resource base and its environment. The aim of this study is therefore to study the impact of intensive cropping on the degradation of natural resources in some selected sites of Bangladesh.