Performance Analysis of the FCD Activities in Bangladesh

The rural economy of Bangladesh is changing under the influence of many other factors than water control interventions. New crops and cropping techniques emerge, new markets develop, transport patterns change, population pressure increases, new investments are made, technologies for managing land and water improve and many other developments imply that rural areas are experiencing dynamic transformations. It is consequently not realistic to consider that the expansion of HYV cultivation in FCD schemes is only achieved because of the implementation of the schemes, as was done in most of the previous feasibility reports.