Agricultural Science; Vol. 2, No. 1; 2020 ISSN 2690-5396 E-ISSN 2690-4799 https://doi.org/10.30560/as.v2n1p170 170 Published by IDEAS SPREAD Trends of Water Requirements of Major Crops and Cropping Patterns in Bogura and Rajshahi Districts of Bangladesh Mohammad A. Mojid1, Farhana Y. Shibly1 & Tapos K. Acharjee1 1 Department of Irrigation and Water Management, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2202, Bangladesh Correspondence: Mohammad A. Mojid, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2202, Bangladesh. E- mail: ma_mojid@yahoo.com Received: April 21, 2020 Accepted: May 3, 2020 Online Published: May 11, 2020 Abstract Reliable past trends of water requirements of individual crops and cropping patterns at local level, although crucially important for irrigation forecast and agricultural planning, are yet inadequate for the water-scarce Barind region of Bangladesh. This study, therefore, determined water requirements and their trends of eight major crops (aus, aman, boro, vegetables, mustard, sugarcane, wheat and potato) and six cropping patterns (aus–aman–boro, aus–aman–potato, aman–potato–fallow, vegetables–aman, aman–mustard–fallow and aus–fallow–wheat) of Bogura and Rajshahi districts of the Barind region. Water requirements were determined from crop, soil and weather data for the period 1985–2013 by using Soil-Water Balance via CropWat (SWBcropwat) model. Trends of rainfall, crop evapotranspiration (ETc) and irrigation requirement (IR) were determined with MAKESENS statistical tool. Monthly total rainfall revealed increasing trend in January, August and October but decreasing trend in the other months, with significant (p≤0.05) trend in July in Bogura. Monthly total ETc decreased except in July and September, with significant trend in October–April/May. Seasonal ETc for the crops decreased significantly except for aman rice and sugarcane in Bogura and for aman rice in Rajshahi. ETc also decreased for the cropping patterns except for aman–mustard–fallow in Rajshahi. While effective rainfall (ER) for the crops and cropping patterns decreased only minimally, IR decreased significantly for boro, potato and vegetables in Bogura and for mustard and vegetables in Rajshahi. IR decreased for all cropping patterns, with significant trend for aus– aman–potato, aman–potato–fallow and vegetables–aman patterns. In response to changing cropping area, total volume of ETc increased gradually from 1985 to 2005 in Bogura and from 1985 to 2010 in Rajshahi for boro rice, but it decreased until 2005 before increasing for aus rice in both districts. After the year 2000, total volume of ETc decreased for wheat but increased for potato, indicating a shift from wheat to potato cultivation. Due to contrasting trends of ER and ETc and self-motivated shift in crop-choice, continuous adjustment of irrigation-based crop planning is necessary. The results of this study can guide future investigation for all other crops and cropping patterns to help planning agriculture of the study areas by choosing appropriate crops and cropping patterns based on available water resources. Keywords: irrigation forecast, water scarcity, agricultural planning, SWBcropwat 1. Introduction Application of water and its managed usage has been an essential factor worldwide in raising productivity of crop agriculture and ensuring predictability in outputs. Crop-water requirement varies substantially across the globe, reflecting differences in cropping intensity, crop choice, soil characteristics, irrigation water availability, agricultural management and climatic condition. Information on crop-water requirement is important for selection of crops and cropping patterns and their irrigation scheduling in any particular area. When water is scarce, knowledge on the magnitude of water demand is crucial for decision-making about agricultural planning based on limited water resources. Irrigated agriculture has become central to the current rapid agricultural development and food security in Bangladesh. Rice being the staple food is currently grown on 73.7% of the total cultivated land, constituting 93.4% of the total cereal production (BBS, 2017). The projected population in the country, 185 million in 2030 and 202 million in 2050 (United Nations, 2017), indicates an additional requirement of 12.4 and 21.0 million tons of rice respectively by 2030 and 2050 (Mainuddin & Kirby, 2015). So, irrigation will remain critical in supplying foods (Peacock, 1996), and the consumption of agricultural water will continue to increase during the coming decades as.ideasspread.org Agricultural Science Vol. 2, No. 1; 2020 171 Published by IDEAS SPREAD (CAWMA, 2007). Moreover, domestic and industrial usages of water are on the rise (Bindraban, 2001); these are likely to grow by 100% and 440%, respectively by 2050 (BDP2100, 2017). So, there will be growing competitions for getting water among the various users. Furthermore, while climate change is likely to cause shortage of drinking and irrigation water (World Bank, 2015) in one hand, will increase demand of irrigation from less than 1% for 2030 in average condition to maximum 3% for 2050 in dry condition (Kirby et al., 2016) on the other hand. Rainfall variability, although uncertain, featuring extreme high and low rainfall, is critical for agricultural productivity and water availability. Thus, water availability for future food security is challenging and will become more challenging if further increase in irrigated area takes place, especially in vulnerable areas like the Barind region of the North-West Bangladesh. The Barind tract being one of the most intensive agricultural and irrigated regions in Bangladesh supplies about 35% of irrigated boro rice and 60% of wheat of the whole country. About 78% irrigated land in this region is covered by groundwater (Hasanuzzaman et al., 2017). Particularly, over 97% of the total area in Rajshahi district and over 99% of the total area in Bogura district of the Barind region are currently irrigated by groundwater (BBS, 2017); usage of surface water for irrigation is very limited in these districts because of its limited availability. The Barind region is facing a number of challenges, such as rapid population growth, declining cultivable land, inadequate water availability during dry season (October–April), declining groundwater table (Ahmad et al., 2014; Mojid et al., 2019) and extreme events like floods and droughts. Some parts of the Barind region are now of greatest concern over falling groundwater tables (CSIRO, WARPO, BWDB, IWM, BIDS, CEGIS, 2014) since groundwater usage has become unsustainable in those areas (Kirby et al., 2013). Impacts of climate change are now visible in the Barind tract in the form of temperature variations, erratic rainfall patterns with low monsoon rains, decreased duration of rainy season, intense short-duration rainfall, increased number of droughts, and prevalence of rough weather. Thus, availability of adequate water during farming seasons has become uncertain. Consequently, it has now become essential to understand the future possible changes in agricultural water requirements to improve water resources management in the region. Demand management is regarded as an important part of the overall solution of water scarcity. The importance of accurately estimating crop-water demand for irrigation forecast and agricultural water management has been widely recognized (Hossain et al., 2017) since proper plan for the application of desired amount of water at right time can conserve the water resources. Trends of water requirement, estimated from the observed recent past long-term daily climate data, and their comparison with the trends of local climatic parameters may provide a better insight into the changes in water demand (Acharjee et al., 2017a). Water requirement and cropping patterns are very closely related and very important for efficacious crop production. If water requirements of each crop and cropping pattern of a region are known, agriculture of the region can be planned based on its available water resources. With this view, this study was planned to find out water requirements and contribution of effective rainfall to the total irrigation requirement, and their trends for the major crops and cropping patterns in Bogura and Rajshahi districts of the North-West Bangladesh over the recent past three decades (1985–2013). 2. Methodology 2.1 Study Area The Barind tract of Bangladesh comprises most parts of the greater Dinajpur, Rangpur, Pabna, Rajshahi, Bogura, Joypurhat and Naogaon districts of Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions in the North-West Bangladesh (Fig. 1). About 73% of its land area is used for agriculture and the percentage of lands used for single cropping, double cropping and triple cropping is 15%, 56% and 29%, respectively in Rajshahi division and 8%, 64% and 27%, respectively in Rangpur division (BBS, 2017). A large variety of different crops are grown in these divisions. These include rice (aus, aman, boro), vegetables, mustard, sugarcane, wheat, potato, tobacco, fibres (jute, mesta, cotton), fruits (mango, pineapple, jackfruit, papaya, melon & water melon, litchi, guava, lemon, palm, date), other cereals (barley, joar, bajra, cheena, kaon), oil seeds (sesame, mustard, groundnut, linseed, coconut, castor), pulses (gram, arhar, lentil, chick pea, mung bean, kheshari), and spices & condiments (chillies, onion, garlic, turmeric, ginger, coriander). Of these, the major crops are rice (aus, aman and boro), wheat, potato, jute, sugarcane, mustard, maize and vegetables, most of which (except aman rice, jute and sugarcane) are cultivated during dry season (November– April). Boro rice is the dominant dry period crop, which is cultivated on more than 70% of the cultivable area during December to May (Acharjee et al., 2017b). The Barind tract lies in the monsoon region of the summer-dominant hemisphere. Its average temperature ranges from 25°C to 35°C in the hottest season and 9°C to 15°C in the coolest season (Banglapedia, 2014). The region is regarded as a drought-prone water-scarce area, often causing devastating effect on agricultural production and as.ideasspread.org Agricultural Science Vol. 2, No. 1; 2020 172 Published by IDEAS SPREAD livelihood of the people (Hussain, 2017). Bogura and Rajshahi districts from the Barind tract (Fig. 1) were selected for this study. Bogura district has a humid sub-tropical climate, with average annual rainfall being 1610 mm. The annual average temperature of the district varies from 11.9°C to 34.6°C (BBS, 2014). Rajshahi has a tropical wet and dry climate. Rainfall is relatively low; the average annual rainfall being 1,448 mm. The maximum mean temperature varies from 32 to 36°C during April to July, and the minimum temperature is 7 to 16°C in January (Wikipedia, 2018). There were total 177 cropping patterns in the greater Bogura regions (Bogura and surrounding districts), with the highest number of cropping patterns (36) was in Nandigram upazila and the lowest number (6) was in Dupchachia and Kahalu upazila of Bogura district (Islam et al., 2017). In the greater Rajshahi region (Rajshahi and surrounding districts), there were total 172 cropping patterns, with the highest number (36) in Paba upazila and the lowest number (11) in Charghat (11) upazila of Rajshahi district (Rashid et al., 2017). Figure 1. Locations Bogura and Rajshahi districts in Bangladesh 2.2 Data Collection Data on daily reference crop evapotranspiration (ETo) and rainfall for the period 1985–2013 were collected from an on-going project (SDIP II: Sustaining groundwater irrigation for food security in the North-West region of Bangladesh) of CSIRO, Australia. The average, maximum and minimum ETo and rainfall for Bogura and Rajshahi districts are provided in Table A1 in Appendix. Data on crops such as length of growth stage, crop co-efficient, root depths, depletion factors, yield reduction factors, maximum ponding depth, minimum ponding depth, refill ponding depth, planting date and planting duration were collected from sub-district (called upazila) and district Agricultural Offices through SDIP II project. Planting date, length of growth stage and harvesting date of the crops for Bogura and Rajshahi districts are provided in Table A2 in Appendix. Out of a large number of cropping patterns (172~177) only six commonly practiced cropping patterns: aus−aman−boro, aus−aman−potato, aman−potato, vegetables−aman, mustard−aman and aus–fallow–wheat were investigated in this study, specifically to generate the basic information. It is noted that the cropping patterns in Bogura and Rajshahi districts have been changing over the years depending on many factors, such as irrigation facility, market price of the produce, profitability of the crop, food habit of the people, etc. We evaluated trend of water requirements of the crops and cropping patterns as.ideasspread.org Agricultural Science Vol. 2, No. 1; 2020 173 Published by IDEAS SPREAD over the period from 1985 to 2013. Therefore, in selecting the crops and cropping patterns, we emphasized on cropping practices over this period. However, for complete scenario development for water use, all the crops and cropping patterns need to be investigated, which was not within the scope of this study. Data on soil-types, initial soil-moisture content, soil-moisture content at saturation and field capacity, residual soil-moisture content, saturated hydraulic conductivity and percolation rate for rice fields used in estimating water requirements are given in Table A3 in Appendix. The rooting depths, depletion factors, yield reduction factors and ponding depths of different crops used in the estimation are given in Table A4 in Appendix. 2.3 Water Requirement Estimation Irrigation-water requirement was estimated by using Soil-Water Balance via CropWat (SWBcropwat) model of Mainuddin et al. (2014), which is a macro in MS excel sheets. This model calculates irrigation water requirement of crops and soil-water balance following the principle in Allen et al. (1998). For calculation of effective rainfall, the model utilized the method of USDA Soil Conservation Service (1993) that was developed based on long-term climatic and soil moisture data. It can perform calculation for one or more weather/climate sequences, crops and soils. The model can therefore calculate irrigation requirements and soil-water balance of many places within large areas and places with different climates, soils and crops. It was designed to do the calculations necessary for spatial assessments of irrigation requirements and soil-water balance. However, there is no any available sophisticated method to calculate infiltration and drainage for determining soil-water balance. But there is a simple and sophisticated option, called water content-dependent leaking buckets, in SWBcropwat. In this option, soil-water content is calculated daily by adding irrigation and rainfall, and subtracting evapotranspiration/soil evaporation, runoff and drainage. Whenever soil-water content exceeds saturation, the excess water is subtracted and added to runoff. Drainage is calculated from the water content-dependent hydraulic conductivity. Rice crop is treated differently with a fixed leakage rate, presumed to be lower than upland crop, because of puddling during the rice transplanting period. For water balance calculation, a working worksheet keeps link with input worksheets for rain, reference evapotranspiration, soil and crop data, multi-cropping sequence and irrigation-rules. The calculations are done in a macro, and the number of irrigations, total irrigation, total rain, crop-available rain, reference evapotranspiration, crop evapotranspiration, total drainage, total runoff, yield potential, etc. are generated as outputs to other worksheets. The water-balance outputs can be either annual or daily as desired by the user. For details on SWB model, the readers are referred to Mainuddin et al. (2014). Crop evapotranspiration (ETc) was calculated by crop co-efficient approach in which ETc (mm/day) was calculated by multiplying reference evapotranspiration, ETo (mm/day), with crop co-efficient (Kc, dimensionless) as 𝐸𝑇c = 𝐾c × 𝐸𝑇o (1) ETo being a climatic parameter expresses evaporative power of the atmosphere and is defined as the evapotranspiration from excellently managed, large, well-watered fields that achieve full production under the given climatic conditions. Differences in leaf anatomy, stomatal characteristics, aerodynamic properties and albedo cause ETc to differ from ETo under the same climatic conditions. Due to variations in the crop characteristics throughout the growing season, Kc for a given crop changes from sowing till harvest. Its value for rice is generally greater than 1, especially during the vigorous growth period, but for other crops, it is less than 1. We calculated effective rainfall by using the method of USDA Soil Conservation Service (1993) that was developed based on long-term climatic and soil moisture data. 2.4 Trend Analysis The trend of monthly total rainfall and crop evapotranspiration (ETc); seasonal total ETc, effective rainfall (ER) and irrigation requirement (IR) of eight major crops; and ETc, ER and IR of six major cropping patterns were determined by using Mann-Kendall-Sens (MAKESENS) trend statistics (Salmi, 2002). An MS excel template for implementation of the MAKESENS model, developed for detecting and estimating trend in time series of annual values of atmospheric chemistry, are freely available as open source. The used statistical methods are the non- parametric Mann-Kendall test for analyzing the presence of monotonic increasing or decreasing trend and the non- parametric Sen's method for estimating the slope of a linear trend (Salmi, 2002). MAKESENS utilizes two statistics, called S-statistics and Z-statistics (Gilbert, 1987), to estimate trend. For time series with less than 10 data points, S-statistics is used, and for time series with ≥10 data points, Z-statistics is used. If x1, x2, x3, …., xj represent n data points, where xj is the data point at time j, Mann-Kendall statistics “S” is expressed by as.ideasspread.org Agricultural Science Vol. 2, No. 1; 2020 174 Published by IDEAS SPREAD ( )  − = += −= 1 1 1 sgn n k n kj kj xxS (2) In Equation (1), sgn(xj − xk) = 1 for xj − xk > 0, or sgn(xj − xk) = 0 for xj − xk = 0, or sgn(xj − xk) = −1 for xj − xk < 0. The normalized Z-statistics is given by ( )[ ] 2/1 1 SVAR SZ −= if S>0 ( )[ ] 2/1 1 SVAR SZ += if S<0 Z = 0 if S = 0 (3) The MAKESENS model provides trends of the monthly total rainfall and ETc; seasonal total ETc, ER and IR of eight major crops; and ETc, ER and IR of six major cropping patterns in terms of Z-statistics (Equation (3)), slope, and intercept of the trend line. It also provides statistical significance of the observed trends in the values of the parameters. The Z-statistics is a deterministic index of the trend. The intercept and slope together provide the trend lines. The slope of the trend lines determines magnitude and direction of the trend. Based on data type, especially sensitivity of change, the MAKESENS model determines statistical significance of the trend at p ≤ 0.10, ≤0.05, ≤0.01 and ≤0.001. The Mann-Kendall test requires at least four values, and calculation of the confidence intervals for the Sen's slope estimate requires at least ten values in a time series. 3. Results 3.1 Monthly Total Rainfall and Crop Evapotranspiration Negative values of Mann-Kendall trend statistics, Z (Table 1), revealed declining trend of monthly total rainfall in eight of the twelve months over the period 1985–2013 both in Bogura and Rajshahi districts, with the significant (p≤0.05) declining trend (–8.67 mm/month/year) in July. Monthly total rainfall increased slightly over the years in April, August and October in Bogura, and August and October in Rajshahi. Rainfall effectively remained invariant during January, March and December in both districts. The rate of variation (decreasing/increasing) of the monthly total rainfall was higher in Bogura than in Rajshahi district in most of the months. Monthly total crop evapotranspiration, ETc (Equation 1), declined significantly from October to April in Bogura and October to May in Rajshahi (Table 1). ETc showed slightly increasing trend in July and September in both districts but remained effectively unchanged in August and September in Rajshahi. Sen's slope revealed the higher declining rates of ETc in Bogura than in Rajshahi. Table 1. Mann-Kendall trend values (Z; Equation 3) and Sen's slopes (S, mm/month/year; Equation 2) of monthly total rainfall and crop evapotranspiration (ETc) in Bogura and Rajshahi districts Months Rainfall Crop evapotranspiration, ETc Bogura Rajshahi Bogura Rajshahi Z S Z S Z S Z S January 0.30 0.000 0.10 0.00 –5.08*** –0.846 –4.26*** –0.021 February –1.77+ –0.229 –1.78+ –0.33 –2.68** –0.466 –2.53* –0.018 March –0.06 0.000 0.06 0.00 –3.47*** –0.951 –2.91** –0.026 April 0.32 0.433 –0.49 –0.54 –3.32*** –0.892 –4.26*** –0.047 May –1.76+ –3.211 –0.08 –0.09 –0.88 –0.356 –2.61** –0.020 June –1.54 –4.604 –0.09 –0.53 –1.78+ –0.342 –1.48 –0.010 July –2.34* –8.667 –1.18 –4.21 1.29 0.367 1.67+ 0.010 August 1.16 3.087 0.28 0.35 –0.43 –0.113 –0.96 –0.007 September –1.69+ –5.639 –0.96 –3.15 0.39 0.148 1.11 0.007 October 0.17 1.022 0.41 0.58 –2.08* –0.346 –2.23* –0.011 November –0.90 0.000 –1.48 –0.12 –3.43*** –0.512 –2.61** –0.010 December –1.69+ 0.000 –1.56 0.00 –3.81*** –0.799 –3.25** –0.016 +, *, ** and *** signs indicate significant at p≤0.10, ≤0.05, ≤0.01 and ≤0.001 level of significance, respectively. as.ideasspread.org Agricultural Science Vol. 2, No. 1; 2020 175 Published by IDEAS SPREAD 3.2 Effective Rainfall and Crop-water Requirements Effective rainfall, ER, was always much less than crop evapotranspiration, ETc, for boro rice both in Bogura and Rajshahi districts (Fig. 2). ETc showed a gradual decreasing trend over the years of study. Large quantity of irrigation was needed for boro rice; the highest irrigation requirement was 588 mm in 1988–1989 and the lowest was 223 mm in 2001–2002 in Bogura. The corresponding quantity of irrigation requirement was 596 mm in 1988– 1989 and 300 mm in 1999–2000 in Rajshahi. In contrast, ER was higher than ETc in most of the years for aus rice and always higher than ETc for aman rice. Therefore, only occasional supplemental irrigation was needed for aus rice but no irrigation was needed for aman rice in both districts. As demonstrated in Fig. 2, ER fluctuated over a wide range from year to year; for example, it was 1185 mm in the aus season of 1988 but only 315 mm in the aus season of 2012 in Bogura. Because of higher ETc than ER, irrigation was a necessity for vegetables and mustard both in Bogura and Rajshahi districts (Fig. 3). ETc for sugarcane remained unchanged over the years. Sugarcane being a perennial year-round crop received enough rainfall during its main growth period and, therefore, it did not require irrigation. ETc of wheat and potato was higher than ER in both districts and large quantity of irrigation was needed for these crops (Fig. 3). ETc of these crops decreased gradually over the study period. Mann-Kendall trends (Z-statistics) of ETc of the crops were significant (p≤0.05) except for aman rice and sugarcane in Bogura and for aman rice in Rajshahi (Table 2). Negative values of Z revealed declining trend of ETc except for aman rice and sugarcane for Bogura and aman for Rajshahi. The most declining trend was for boro rice (4.37 mm/season/year) in Bogura and sugarcane (5.31 mm/season/year) in Rajshahi. Although effective rainfall was declining, none of the Mann-Kendall value was significant for the crops under investigation. Sen's slopes showed declining rate of irrigation requirement, IR, except for aus, aman and sugarcane in both districts (Table 2). The declining trend of IR was significant for boro rice, potato and vegetables in Bogura and for mustard and vegetables in Rajshahi. Figure 2. Variation of crop evapotranspiration (ETc), effective rainfall (ER) and irrigation requirement (IR) of boro, aus and aman rice during 1985–2013 in Bogura (left) and Rajshahi (right) districts as.ideasspread.org Agricultural Science Vol. 2, No. 1; 2020 176 Published by IDEAS SPREAD Figure 3. Variation of crop evapotranspiration (ETc), effective rainfall (ER) and irrigation requirement (IR) of vegetables, mustard, sugarcane, wheat and potato during 1985–2013 in Bogura (left) and Rajshahi (right) districts Table 2. Mann-Kendall trend (Z; Equation 3) and Sen's slope (S, mm/season/year; Equation 2) of estimated crop evapotranspiration (ETc, mm/season), effective rainfall (ER, mm/season) and irrigation requirement (IR, mm/season) of eight major crops under study in Bogura and Rajshahi districts Crops Bogura Rajshahi ETc ER IR ETc ER IR Z S Z S Z S Z S Z S Z S Boro –4.96*** –4.37 –0.30 –0.65 –2.03* –3.13 –3.50*** –3.71 –0.75 –1.02 –1.36 –2.56 Aus –2.76** –1.85 –1.74+ –5.48 0.43 0.00 –4.03*** –2.59 –0.17 –0.69 –0.54 0.00 Aman 0.73 0.16 –1.74 –9.96 0.00 0.00 0.73 0.16 –1.74+ –9.95 0.00 0.00 Mustard –4.76*** –1.88 –1.70+ –0.39 –1.68+ –1.23 –3.93*** –1.35 –1.21 –0.26 –2.07* –0.95 Potato –4.48*** –2.79 –0.97 –0.71 –2.23* –1.80 –3.54*** –1.89 –0.79 –0.77 –1.09 –1.17 Vegetables –4.72*** –2.21 –1.25 –0.46 –2.19* –1.52 –3.81*** –1.50 –1.03 –0.25 –2.35* –1.25 Sugarcane –2.68 –2.00 –1.80 –10.71 0.00 0.00 –3.28** –5.31 –1.29 –8.68 0.68 0.00 Wheat –4.52*** –2.15 –0.59 –0.28 –1.96+ –1.85 –4.29*** –1.39 –0.24 –0.14 –1.80+ –1.19 +, *, ** and *** signs indicate significant at p≤0.10, ≤0.05, ≤0.01 and ≤0.001 level of significance, respectively. 3.3 Water Requirements of Major Cropping Patterns The effective rainfall was less than ETc for the cropping patterns over the study period (1985–2013), and hence irrigation was needed for aus–aman–boro, aus–aman–potato, aman–potato–fallow, vegetables–aman, aman– mustard–fallow and aus–fallow–wheat patterns both in Bogura and Rajshahi districts (Figs. 4 and 5). In spite of some inter-annual fluctuations, ETc for the cropping patterns decreased gradually over the years. But, because of larger inter-annual fluctuation in the effective rainfall, irrigation requirement for the cropping patterns also fluctuated in parallel to the effective rainfall. as.ideasspread.org Agricultural Science Vol. 2, No. 1; 2020 177 Published by IDEAS SPREAD Figure 4. Variation of crop evapotranspiration (ETc), effective rainfall (ER) and irrigation requirement (IR) of aus–aman–boro, aus–aman–potato and aman–potato cropping patterns during 1985–2013 in Bogura (left) and Rajshahi (right) districts Figure 5. Variation of crop evapotranspiration (ETc), effective rainfall (ER) and irrigation requirement (IR) of vegetables–aman, mustard–aman and wheat–aus cropping patterns during 1985–2013 in Bogura (left) and Rajshahi (right) districts The Mann-Kendall Z-value for ETc showed significant decreasing trend for the cropping patterns except for aman– mustard–fallow pattern in Rajshahi (Table 3). The most declining rate of ETc was for aus–aman–boro pattern in both districts, with Sen's slope of –6.30 (mm/year) for Bogura and –5.75 (mm/year) for Rajshahi that represented declining rates of ETc. The effective rainfall for the cropping patterns remained effectively unchanged. Irrigation requirement for the cropping patterns declined over the years, with significant declining trend for aus–aman–potato, aman–potato–fallow and vegetables–aman patterns in Bogura. as.ideasspread.org Agricultural Science Vol. 2, No. 1; 2020 178 Published by IDEAS SPREAD Table 3. Mann-Kendall trend (Z-statistics; Equation 3) and Sen’s slope (S, mm/season/year; Equation 2) of crop evapotranspiration (ETc, mm/season), effective rainfall (ER, mm/season) and irrigation requirement (IR, mm/season) of six major cropping patterns in Bogura and Rajshahi districts Bogura Rajshahi Cropping patterns ETc ER IR ETc ER IR Z S Z S Z S Z S Z S Z S Aus–aman–boro –4.01*** –6.30 –1.17 –2.46 –1.52 –2.88 –3.34*** –5.75 –0.81 –2.05 –1.28 –5.22 Aus–aman–potato –3.89*** –4.96 –1.96+ –2.68 –2.11* –1.77 –3.30*** –4.00 –0.30 –0.66 –1.01 –3.47 Aman–potato–fallow –2.86** –2.59 –0.73 –0.87 –2.23* –1.80 –2.39* –1.50 –0.38 –0.41 –0.69 –1.06 Vegetables–aman –2.83** –2.13 –0.45 –0.39 –2.19* –1.52 –2.27* –1.50 –0.49 –0.22 –1.80+ –1.12 Aman–mustard–fallow –2.55* –1.81 –0.73 –0.50 –1.68+ –1.23 –1.96+ –1.18 –0.18 –0.14 –1.48 –0.86 Aus–fallow–wheat –4.37*** –4.67 –1.56 –2.01 –1.68+ –1.95 –4.37*** –4.27 –0.30 –0.28 –0.93 –2.03 +, *, ** and *** signs indicate significant at p≤0.10, ≤0.05, ≤0.01 and ≤0.001 level of significance, respectively. 3.4 Crop Evapotranspiration as Influenced by Changing Cropping Area The seasonal total volume of crop evapotranspiration, ETc, of boro rice increased gradually from 1985 to 2005 in Bogura and from 1985 to 2010 in Rajshahi district and then decreased in both districts (Fig. 6) in response to a similar change in cropping area of boro rice. It is noted that data on cropping area for boro, aus and aman were not available for the period 2001–2007 and also similar data for potato were not available for the period 2005–2010 for Rajshahi. ETc of aus rice decreased up to the year 2005, after which it increased to some extent. ETc of the aman rice remained unchanged except slight inter-annual variations in both the districts. In Bogura, ETc of wheat decreased but that of potato increased, with rapid change in ETc from the year 2000. In Rajshahi, ETc for wheat and potato remained unchanged from 1985 to 1998 and then increased. There was a direct positive correlation with ETc and cropping area in both districts that clearly indicated an adjustment in the cropping patterns by choosing crops, plausibly mainly based on availability of irrigation water among other factors. 4. Discussion 4.1 Under-utilized Effective Rainfall The effective rainfall, ER, was substantially larger than crop evapotranspiration, ETc, of aus rice in Bogura district (Fig. 2). Therefore, no irrigation was needed and a part of ER remained unutilized. In Rajshahi district, on the other hand, ER was considerably larger than ETc of aus rice in some years and considerably smaller than ETc in other years (Fig. 2), revealing the necessity of supplemental irrigation when ER was effectively smaller than ETc of the crop in Rajshahi. For aman rice, ER being about double the amount of ETc indicated no requirement of irrigation (Fig. 2) and unutilized ER. By estimating water requirement for aman rice for 2005–2012 seasons in Tanore upazila of Rajshahi district, Hasan et al. (2019) also showed no irrigation requirement for this crop during June to September due to high rainfall. For sugarcane cultivation, ER was significantly greater than ETc in Bogura but mostly equal to ETc in Rajshahi (Fig. 3). Although ERs during some crop-growing periods were larger than the crops’ seasonal total ETc, they were always significantly smaller than ETc for the six cropping patterns under investigation (Figs. 4 and 5). The reason for this was that the excess ER for a crop period could not be transferred to the next season for another crop in the pattern; the excess ER was always wasted. The effective rainfall, ER, was estimated from the daily total rainfall based on soil-water retention capacity for the upland crops and allowable standing water depths for irrigated rice crops. The two districts under study are drought-prone (Hussain, 2017); often there were long rainless dry periods (32–48 days) depending on duration of the droughts (BanDuDeltAS, 2015; Mojid, 2020). This means that the rainfall events were not uniformly distributed over the crop periods, and hence potential ER from the rainfalls could not be utilized fully. The large rainfall events might exceed soil’s retention capacity and standing water depths in the rice fields and the excess amounts were lost through surface runoff and deep percolation. Therefore, there remain ample scopes for rainwater harvesting in both districts (Masum et al., 2013) that can be utilized for irrigation in the following dry season crop cultivation. as.ideasspread.org Agricultural Science Vol. 2, No. 1; 2020 179 Published by IDEAS SPREAD Figure 6. Changes in total volume of crop evapotranspiration (ETc) of boro rice, aus rice, aman rice, wheat and potato due to changes in cropping area during 1984/1985 to 2012/2013 in Bogura (left) and Rajshahi (right) districts 4.2 Cropping Pattern Selection Selection of a cropping pattern is governed by several factors such as crop suitability to local conditions, local food habits, economic profitability of the produce and availability of inputs for production of the crops, among which irrigation water availability is the most crucial one for the study areas. Both in Bogura and Rajshahi districts, irrigation areas expanded significantly (BBS, 2017) over the study period (1985–2013) due to increasing food production, especially boro rice production, to meet increasing food demand. However, due to scanty and uncertain rainfall in the dry season (October–April), boro rice cultivation is fully dependent on irrigation (Masum et al., 2013). This has already caused scarcity of irrigation water for dry season crop production. The amount of rainfall in the North-West region of Bangladesh, within which the study areas are located, is progressively declining. The average annual rainfall (1985–2015) of six major rain gauge stations in this region shows a declining trend of 9.2 mm/year (Mojid et al., 2019). The water-scarcity situations in the study areas are expected to be much worse in future since irrigation water requirement can increase by 1% to 5% in 2050 depending on crop selection (Mainuddin et al., 2015). Although rice crop itself will not require extra amount of water for its conjunctive use (Kader et al., 2014; Mojid et al., 2015) the increasing irrigation command area and warmer climate will require more water to be pumped (Shahid, 2011). This will ultimately aggravate the already stressed groundwater resources of the study areas. Due to scarcity of irrigation water during the dry season crop production, many farmers in the study areas have been already compelled to shift from high-water demanding boro rice to low-water demanding crops like potato, wheat, vegetables, fruit, etc. Such dynamism in crop selection is guided by significant differences in the quantities of irrigation requirement for different cropping patterns (Figs. 4 and 5). Consequently, appropriate planning of agriculture by selecting the proper cropping pattern(s) based on available water for irrigation shall remain a major policy option for the future to continue agricultural production in the study areas. as.ideasspread.org Agricultural Science Vol. 2, No. 1; 2020 180 Published by IDEAS SPREAD However, shifting the cropping patterns will also have some limitations because of food habits and custom of the local people. Along with crop selection, serious efforts to increase water availability for irrigation may be needed. In this regard, the excess rainwater, currently returned as surface runoff, will be an important water source to be harvested in ponds and reservoirs for using in dry season irrigation in the future. Another option will be adoption of techniques for induced natural recharge and artificial recharge to groundwater aquifers during the wet season. 5. Conclusions Monthly total rainfall and seasonal effective rainfall for the major crops and cropping patterns decreased gradually in Bogura and Rajshahi districts over the years 1985–2013 except in January, August and October. Whatever effective rainfalls occurred might not be utilized fully because of their non-uniform temporal distributions. So, the dry season crop period (November–April) became drier over this period. To the wonder, irrigation requirement of the widely practiced cropping patterns also revealed declining trend due to decrease in crop evapotranspiration, ETc, of the crops. In response to increasing boro rice area, its seasonal total ETc increased gradually up to 2005 in Bogura and 2010 in Rajshahi. This caused scarcity of irrigation water and forced the farmers to shift from the high water-demanding boro rice to low water-demanding wheat and potato cultivation. Irrigation requirement of the cropping patterns was in the order: aus–aman–boro>aus–aman–potato>aman–potato>wheat–aus>vegetables– aman> mustard–aman for Bogura, and aus–aman–boro>aus–aman–potato>wheat–aus>aman–potato>vegetables– aman>mustard–aman for Rajshahi. Due to the decreasing trends of effective rainfall and dynamic shift in crop- choice by the farmers in response to increasing irrigation area, continuous adjustment of irrigation-based crop planning is necessary for optimum production by resource optimization. The methodology and findings of this study can be used for periodic evaluation of crop suitability and cropping patterns based on available water resources in the study areas. 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Monthly average, maximum and minimum reference crop evapotranspiration (ETo) and rainfall in Bogura and Rajshashi districts Districts Parameters Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Bogura ETo (mm) Avg. 69 91 134 144 145 122 118 119 107 106 84 68 Max. 83 104 164 176 170 139 139 137 121 119 95 79 Min. 50 73 110 123 105 102 94 102 89 88 69 44 Rainfall (mm) Avg. 7 12 18 77 195 322 356 296 300 156 12 7 Max. 65 53 76 284 416 756 749 623 733 523 92 112 Min. 0 0 0 0 92 128 92 111 99 0 0 0 Rajshahi ETo (mm) Avg. 69 89 134 156 155 129 119 120 109 105 83 68 Max. 81 105 174 197 176 154 135 138 124 118 90 78 Min. 55 75 116 131 117 115 101 106 94 89 68 49 Rainfall (mm) Avg. 5 13 22 53 141 246 307 243 271 114 14 7 Max. 26 47 104 136 301 507 763 468 644 292 101 92 Min. 0 0 0 0 17 85 94 96 89 4 0 0 Table A2. Crop data on planting date, length of growth stage and harvesting date of the crops of Bogura and Rajshahi districts under investigation Crops Planting/ Transplanting date Length of growth stage (day) Harvesting date initial development mid-season late-season Aman 1 August 20 30 30 25 14 November as.ideasspread.org Agricultural Science Vol. 2, No. 1; 2020 183 Published by IDEAS SPREAD Aus 1 May 20 30 20 20 30 July Boro 17 January 20 30 40 15 29 April Potato 20 November 20 25 40 15 18 February Wheat 26 October 10 20 45 25 4 February Pulses 16 September 20 30 40 20 5 January Sugarcane 1 January 30 60 180 95 1 January Vegetables 15 November 20 30 30 15 19 February Mustard 20 November 15 30 20 15 9 February Table A3. Soil-types, initial soil-moisture content (MCini), soil-moisture content at saturation (MCsat) and field capacity (MCFC), residual soil-moisture content (MCres), saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat) and percolation rate for rice fields (PERrice) used in estimating water requirements for Bogura and Rajshahi districts Parameters Loam Clay Clay loam Heavy clay MCini 0.2 0.25 0.27 0.298 MCsat 0.35 0.52 0.52 0.55 MCFC 0.22 0.39 0.36 0.49 MCres 0.04 0.24 0.21 0.35 Ksat (mm/d) 136.8 57.6 62.4 50.4 PERrice (mm/d) 1.0 1.0 1.5 0.5 Table A4. Rooting depths, depletion factors, yield reduction factors and ponding depths of different crops used in in estimating water requirements for Bogura and Rajshahi districts Parameters Stage Rice_BR29 Rice_Aman Rice_ Aus Wheat Potato Other Robi Root depth (mm) ini 500 1000 700 800 700 600 md 1000 1000 700 1000 1000 600 Depletion factors ini 0.2 0.6 0.1 0.55 0.4 0.45 mid 0.2 0.6 0.1 0.55 0.4 0.45 end 0.2 0.9 0.3 0.8 0.4 0.8 Yield reduction factors ini 0.9 0.2 1.1 0.2 0.4 0.2 dev 1.1 0.65 1.1 0.55 1.1 1.1 mid 0.5 0.55 2.2 0.65 0.8 0.75 end 0.33 0.25 0.33 0.35 0.4 0.2 tot 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.15 1.05 1.15 Ponding depth (mm) max 100 100 100 min 10 10 10 refill 50 50 50 Copyrights Copyright for this article is retained by the author(s), with first publication rights granted to the journal. 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