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The
wide range of agricultural crops grown in the Rabi and pre-Kharif periods
become vulnerable to drought at varying degrees. In drought prone areas,
farmers prefer to grow drought resistant crops. Among them, Lentil, Gram,
Sesame, Sugarcane, and Millet crops are the most common grown in these
areas. But there are other major crops, which need irrigation because
of their pronounced vulnerability to drought. Wheat, Potato, and Mustard
are the major Rabi crops that suffer drought stress due to an unfavorable
agroclimate. BARC has determined the yield reduction of these crops for
different drought prone classes through a computerized model, subsequently
ground truthed by the specialists of the Wheat Research Center and the
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI). |
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