Structural measures for flood risk mitigation in the agricultural field: a review

Abstract

Flood is amongst the most common of natural disasters and its impact is one of the most significant disasters in the world. Most of the developing countries’ economy is heavily dependent on agriculture which employs a large percentage of the population. Agriculture, especially crop production, is highly sensitive to extreme events specially flooding. Flood risk mitigation is one of the practical methods in damage reduction in agricultural sectors. This paper attempts to analyse the review on mechanism of flood risk mitigation in an agricultural field to reduce the losses. Availability and implementation of structural measures on flood risk is limited Lack of such idea is also known to be an obstacle for strategic planning in most of countries. Therefore, the primary objective of this paper is to review the structural measures for flood risk in an agricultural field to overcome flood impact on agricultural field.