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Sustainable Land Management: Policy Implication and Sectoral Achievement - Sustainability

Dr. Md. Shamsul Alam
Care of : Md. Enayet Ali
Hatem Kha Choto Mosjid
E-205
Rajshahi-6000, Bangladesh
Cell Phone No. +88-01556-333558
E-mail: shimulabc[at]yahoo.com

Present investigation deals with the “Sustainable Land Management: Policy Implication and Sectoral Achievement”. It was conducted from the period of three years (July’2003 to June’2006) in plain-land and wetland. The investigation was designed with land management system and degradation due to inadequate existing policies and improper implementation of existing laws.

The present study has observed that there are many laws and government policies to manage the land but most of these laws were not implementing.

The land use pattern has been changed and increased land-using. The excessive land-use and improper land-use change are causing land degradation. The socio-economic problems are also rising due to improper land management.

The population is much more than the affording capacity of the area. The people need foods, shelter and others from the limited land. The farmers are trying to produce much food from the limited land resource. They are using chemical fertilizer, insecticides, HYV seeds and other harmful things in agricultural land without considering its consequences and future. But there are not laws and policies to stop or to reduce of these harmful activities. Impact of these laws and policies on agriculture environment and other environmental sectors examined and found that due to these laws agriculture production increased significantly but there are some adverse effects such as wetland degradation and deforestation due to conversion of these lands into agriculture. There are no enough provisions in existing laws and policies to mitigate these problems. It is also found that the existing laws and policies are inadequate to cope with the environmental problems such as decreasing fertility.

The proper laws, acts, regulations, government policies are not being implemented properly which is a reality. So we must prepare a proper and sustainable land management policy that causes into effect for our better future.
 

 

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