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Debiganj (Panchagarh)

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A southern Panchagarh upazila of foothill farmland and tea frontier, bounded by India and threaded by the Karatoya river system.

Wealth rank 115/452 (1 = poorest upazila)

Indicators: Meta RWI (HDX); ERA5-Land; MODIS; Sentinel-5P; VIIRS night-lights; GHSL; Hansen v1.11; CHIRPS v2.0. Exposure: GloFAS v2.1, FABDEM, MODIS LST, ACAG PM2.5, WorldPop 2020.

Problems and issues

  1. poverty Debiganj's mean Relative Wealth Index of -0.181 (national rank 115/452, third decile) marks it among the poorer upazilas in one of the country's poorest districts. So what: Low wealth constrains farm households' resilience and services. Source: Meta Data for Good Relative Wealth Index (HDX)
  2. environment Clearing on the foothill and tea-frontier landscape contributes to the district's outsized forest loss. So what: Loss of tree cover destabilises watersheds and soils. Source: Bangladesh Forest Department
  3. climate disaster High monsoon rainfall with negligible permanent surface water generates flashy runoff and flash flooding from the foothill drainage. So what: Flash floods damage cropland and rural infrastructure. Source: Department of Disaster Management

Probable solutions