This page includes three separate sites used in 1982-3. The area is one the major jamuna floodplain, with the flood bringing a good deal of silt every year. One site was that used by Tim Bene for cropping systems studies - no photographs of that are shown but winter crops seen close by are shown in this link.

Early DWR growth, May 1982 - note tube well hut by the embankment. Site alongside main Dhaka-Aricha road, further west than the Bastia site.	Sampling and tiller counts in the flooded field, multifactorial trial, reached througfh Mankiganj town, flood level on 10 July around 30 cm.
Kneed DWR as flood nears its end ...	in close up
Nearing maturity, fields still very damp ...	Harvesting
The cropping systems studies - views of winter crops taken in February 1983
Pulses ? pigeon pea	Pulses
Potatoes and "til"?	Pulses
Potatoes, which crop very well but...	are regarded solely as vegetables rather than as a staple food
Pulses, groundnut and wheat	Winter wheat, used for the moist "paratha", not the dry chapatti of northern India

©2000 - Brian Taylor CBiol FIBiol FRES 11, Grazingfield, Wilford, Nottingham, NG11 7FN, U.K. Visiting Academic in the Department of Life Science, University of Nottingham

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