Conflict and Management Bangladesh PSD Flashcards
no. occupying the coastal zone
36 million
GDP per capita
$1900
Main activity in coastal zone
agriculture
fish harvested in 2003
445,000 tonnes of marine fish
% of fishery output is…
shrimps
no. of people mangrove forests provide
500,000
designated an International Biosphere reserve
in 2001
conflicts in area
pollution, industry, sewage, agriculture, deforestation and shrimp farming
no. of living flows untreated in Bengal
36 million
no. of pesticides in in 2003
18 million tonnes
Resources of Bangladesh
land for farming, fish stocks, land for industry, forest, rare biosphere, Settlement
% of agrochemicals run off land
25%
income generated by shrimp
$300 million
area of mangrove forest cleared for shrimp and salt farming
80km2