Causes and Impacts of Land Fragmentation in the Coastal Area of Bangladesh

Identification of root causes and associated impacts land fragmentation is necessary to reduce future mitigate its impacts. Thus, the purpose this study was explore in a purposively selected coastal Upazila (sub-district) Bangladesh. This carried out mainly based on collected information from individual representative 133 households. It discloses that most households observed during their possession because rapid population growth breaking joint/extended families into nuclear families. In fact, can increase or decrease particular use type. However, results research confirm there are no significant (p >0.07, number households) associations found between increasing decreasing homestead land. contrast, with cropland significantly <0.0001) decreased, whereas having wetlands <0.04) increased. The surveyed have been practicing high-yielding varieties crops, using biofertilizers, possessing new land, changing income sources for adapting behavior. villagers opine problem could be managed by encouraging people living extended/joint families, vertical adopting policy, etc. community-reported used rural area