Database - United Nations in Bangladesh

Land and Agriculture 39
Table 1.3.24 Division-wise Irrigation by Manually Operated Pumps
Year 2002 Year 2001 Year 2000
Name of No. of No. of No. of
Division Manually Irrigated % of Manually Irrigated % of Manually Irrigated
Operated Area (ha) Area Operated Area (ha) Area Operated Area (ha)
Pumps Pumps Pumps
Dhaka 6105 1673.85 22.44 8570 3296.76 50.44 23487 7822.14
Chittagong 4097 2186.92 29.31 5014 1038.62 15.89 8524 3143.23
Rajshahi 7383 2967.54 39.78 7019 1246.31 19.07 32237 6092.42
Khulna 1876 345.90 4.64 1411 321.07 4.91 2499 492
Barisal 0 0 0.00 0 0 0.00 0 0
Sylhet 735 286.00 3.83 905 633.33 9.69 1131 1100.93
Total 20196 7460.21 100 22919 6536.09 100 67878 18650.72
Source: BADC (2002a, 2002b)
Table 1.3.25 Division-wise Irrigation by LLP
Name of
Division
Year 2002 Year 2001 Year 2000
No. of Irrigated % of No. of Irrigated % of No. of Irrigated
LLP Area (ha) Area LLP Area (ha) Area LLP Area (ha)
Dhaka 18465 168448.00 27.01 17947 190317.28 31.53 15001 175055.04
Chittagong 24980 229373.94 36.78 24352 238075.32 39.44 21459 227744.44
Rajshahi 7405 29821.24 4.78 5870 29577.06 4.90 4667 25637.53
Khulna 5595 21208.80 3.40 6444 22526.74 3.73 5011 14844.00
Barisal 7548 83262.41 13.35 8018 83246.32 13.79 8079 78138.08
Sylhet 12992 91574.17 14.68 8678 39866.05 6.60 3841 60382.51
Total 76985 623688.56 100 71309 603608.77 100 58058 581801.24
Source: BADC (2002a, 2002b)
Table 1.3.26 Number of Serviceable Operative and Non-Operative DTWs Installed by BADC
Name of
Division
Year 2002 Year 2001 Year 2000
Operative Non-Operative Operative Non-Operative Operative Non-Operative
DTW DTW DTW DTW DTW DTW
Dhaka 6139 3155 6618 3116 6812 2396
Chittagong 2194 803 2246 799 2277 722
Rajshahi 5728 1916 5763 1756 6217 2509
Khulna 2399 735 2498 504 2446 948
Barisal 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sylhet 97 86 104 114 118 145
Total 16557 6695 17229 6289 17870 6720
Source: BADC (2002a, 2002b)