Empirical Explorations of the problems and Prospects of Land Ownership in Rural Areas of Bangladesh
Abstract
This paper investigates and empirically explores the problems and prospects of land ownership grounded in rural areas of Bangladesh. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used and data were collected by using the tools and techniques of social survey and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) along with Key Informant Interview (KII). Achieving ownership of land, forms of ownership, the mortgage system, and the lease system were identified as both the problems and potentials in this study based on certain social contexts and rural socio-economic institutions. The research also finds that the problems of land ownership have a significant role in agricultural development, and it is a hindrance to the new and becoming land owners. Social class on the basis of land ownership has been explicitly clear in the study area.
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“Empirical Explorations of the problems and Prospects of Land Ownership in Rural Areas of Bangladesh”, Soc. sci. humanities j., vol. 7, no. 08, pp. 3114–3126, Aug. 2023, doi: 10.18535/sshj.v7i08.863.
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