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Delduar (Tangail)

Local Gov

A small central Tangail upazila with a strong handloom-weaving tradition set in a rice-farming landscape.

Wealth rank 363/452 (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. economy Delduar's handloom-weaving livelihoods reflect the district's slow economic-activity growth, constrained by limited credit and market access. So what: Weak non-farm income growth pushes weavers and youth toward out-migration. Source: Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC)
  2. agriculture Rice farming in the upazila faces the district's documented warming and water-stress pressures. So what: Climate stress threatens farm yields that supplement weaving incomes. Source: Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE)
  3. poverty Delduar records an RWI mean of 0.11, among the higher wealth deciles in the upazila distribution. So what: Comparative wealth still leaves weaving households exposed to demand and input shocks. Source: Meta Data for Good Relative Wealth Index (HDX)

Probable solutions