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=== Changes in crop types ===
In all zones there has been a move to more productive types of paddy as demonstrated by the 2019 WMG survey findings. In both Khulna and Satkhira most of the ''boro'' is now of the more productive hybrid type, which has replaced much of the HYV ''boro''; in Patuakhali very little ''boro'' is grown. The only areas with a significant proportion of ''aus'' paddy, grown in ''kharif-1,'' are in Patuakhali, where there has been a sharp switch from local varieties to HYV. ''Aman'' is grown in all three zones and there was a clear trend towards HYV, although local ''aman'' is still grown in Khulna in Patuakhali despite a substantial reduction: from 72% to 47% of all ''aman'' in Khulna and from 84 to 44% of all ''aman'' in Patukhali. In Satkhira already two thirds of all ''aman'' was HYV before the start of BGP.

Although the changes in total area of non-rice crops were not big in two of the three zones (Patuakhali being the exception), there were considerable changes in crop types. In Khulna there was a sharp drop in sesame and also in mung bean (though not so much was grown there), against an increase in more profitable vegetables and watermelon, whereby the cultivation of the latter was concentrated in a few polders. In Satkhira non-rice crops were only grown on a small area, which were mainly vegetables (which slightly increased) and jute (slightly declined). 

The non-rice crops are most important in the ''rabi'' season in Patuakhali, where their total area has increased from just over half of cultivable land to 85% in this season. Prior to BGP, the main non-rice crop used to be ''keshari'', a local pulse crop, which had almost disappeared by 2019. It has been replaced by the more profitable mung bean, which now accounts for 70% of the area of non-rice crops. Relatively small but increasing areas of groundnut, watermelon and chilli were also grown, whereas areas under sesame and sweet potato declined. As compared to the [[:File:TR25 Outcomes report WMG survey 2018 29oct 18.pdf|2018 survey (TR25)]], the area under mung bean declined somewhat in 2019, whereas the area under watermelon and groundnut increased.