Is the family farm disappearing?

Bangladesh’s agrarian landscape faces a tug-of-war between capital’s demand for higher productivity and the traditional peasant mode of subsistence farming. As industrialization encroaches, the push for collectivization and state-enforced grain targets risks alienating peasants from their family-centric production motives. The availability of additional land to accommodate family farm cycles is limited, intensifying tensions between modernizing imperatives and deeply-rooted agrarian traditions. Policymakers grapple with balancing food security and preserving the peasantry’s way of life. FILE PHOTO: MOHAMMAD MONIRUZZAMAN