Abstract—Flood is one of the devastating disasters that
tremendously affecting the agriculture. While several Flood Coping
Strategies (FCS) had been practiced by the victims to overcome the
losses for the same. Thus, the study was undertaken and mainly
aimed at determine to the extent of effectiveness of Flood Coping
Strategies practiced by the fish farmers. The study was conducted in
four villages of two unions namely Jauor and Dameha under Tarail
upazila of Kishoreganj district in Bangladesh. One hundred farmers
were interviewed for data collection using a pretested interview
schedule. Effectiveness of flood coping strategies practiced by the
fish farmers was the dependent variable and measured on the basis of
opinion provided by the fish farmers according to their extent of
practiced. While the extent of effectiveness of flood coping strategies
was measured by using a 4-points rating scale. Appropriate scales
were developed and used in order to measure the concerned
variables. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to
analyze the collected data. Results showed that 17 percent of the
farmers perceived effectiveness of Flood Coping Strategies was high,
followed by 56 percent of farmers perceived as “moderately effective”
and 27 percent of farmers perceived as “low effective”. While
“raising the height of pond dike above flood level’ got ranked first
and denoted as highly effective flood coping strategy while Drain out
dirty flood water was the least effective Flood Coping Strategiesas it
got ranked 24th
. Farmers’ characteristics such as education, farm
size, annual family income, credit received, organizational
participation, social mobility, and knowledge on flood coping
strategies showed significant positive relationship with the perceived
effectiveness of Flood coping strategies. While other variables did
not show any relationship. The influential factors that affecting the
effectiveness of Flood Coping Strategies were level of education,
annual family income and knowledge on Flood Coping Strategies as
confirmed by the multiple regression analysis and these variables
together explained 53.4 percent variation in effectiveness of Flood
Coping Strategies.
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