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Jibannagar (Chuadanga)

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A hot, dry border upazila in southern Chuadanga on the Indian frontier, intensively farmed and reliant on cross-border trade; its Relative Wealth Index of -0.151 (national rank 138 of 452, decile 4 of 10 where 1 is poorest) marks it as the least wealthy of the assigned Chuadanga upazilas.

Wealth rank 138/452 (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 A Relative Wealth Index of -0.151 (national rank 138 of 452, decile 4 of 10 where 1 is poorest) places Jibannagar among the lower-wealth border upazilas, reliant on agriculture and informal cross-border trade. So what: Narrow, informal income sources leave households exposed to crop and trade shocks. Source: Meta Data for Good Relative Wealth Index (HDX)
  2. climate disaster Sitting in the western heat-and-drought belt, Jibannagar faces intense summer heat against very low rainfall. So what: Heat and water stress threaten the irrigated cropping the local economy depends on. Source: Department of Disaster Management
  3. water With essentially no permanent surface water, dry-season irrigation comes entirely from groundwater. So what: Continued abstraction risks aquifer depletion. Source: Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE)

Probable solutions