The Impacts of Jhum on Hilly Area (Rangamati, Khagrachari)

Abstract

We surveyed about the Jhum cultivation of Langadu upazila , Rangamati and Babuchara, Dighinala in Khagrachari. Collected the data based on interview. This survey was conducted from August 2020 to December 2020. The objectives of this survey is to assess the impact of Jhum cultivation, the factors of environment degradation and review the existing crops production system in hilly area and their performances. About 30 persons are taken to interview and collected many data based on the survey. Data is collected in three parts, general information of Jhum owners, assessing the existing crop production system explaining the detail information about the Jhum cultivation. Ages, educational qualification, types of Jhum production system and use of the fertilizers, were analyzed to the green roofs. Most of the respondents are < 50 years but all the respondents are uneducated and it is observed that 10 persons out of 30 were educated. Shifting cultivation is not, at this point an appropriate land use both ecological and monetary points of view, and there is have to supplant such land use steadily with elective locally reasonable land-use frameworks (Knudsren and Khan, 2002). Step by step populace pressure is expanding in the bumpy one of Bangladesh and because of land shortage the nearby individual’s can’t move to somewhere else. Jhum cultivation is currently practicing on perpetual territory in the cases soil has losing its ripeness and Jhum cultivator’s can’t getting enough money crops thus it having hard to job for Jhum cultivator just by Jhum cultivation. The reduction in neglected period has prompted the crumbling of faunal and microbial living beings, top soil moisture and land corruption because slicing furthermore consuming during the time of substantial precipitation. Slope ranchers hence face a grim future with Jhum cultivation. So in this current circumstance the Jhum cultivators may be receive to social ranger service program as an elective wellspring of pay for vocation just as to expand woods spread in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.