Resource information
The importance of base-line reliable data on resource inventory for planning and management for sustainable exploitation of aquatic resources both in inland and marine sectors needs not to be over emphasised. They become all the more important in the highly dynamic situations of Bangladesh. Already terrestrial ecosystem is threatened with fast shrinking man land ratio. Population already stands above 110 million in the land of 55,598 square miles and expected to rise as high as 200 million by 2025. Every child born today would need 0.08 ha. of land for purposes like housing, roads, waste disposal, power supply and other uses and 0.4 ha. of land for producing the food he or she needs. The country as the eight most populous nation in the world with a growth rate of over 2% would need about 1 million ha. of additional land every year. Thus, the growing pressure of a fast expanding human and animal population on land would further lead to an alarming degree of destruction and diminution of the biological potential of land through erosion, alkanity, salinity, water logging and various other forms of soils abuses.
